Bob Goodlatte: “In other words, we could withhold some funds from an agency for failure to comply.”

Right, but the sale of the information to the government puts the government in the picture as well and the Fourth Amendment is directed at the government not obtaining information without showing probable cause, without providing a…

I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.

I do think they have jumped the guardrails.

The fact of the matter is this Committee has jurisdiction over this narrower focus regarding protecting the Fourth Amendment.