The expansion of the federal code--to some 4,500 criminal statutes today, as well as tens of thousands of regulations carrying criminal penalties--has resulted in a code that no average American citizen could be expected to read and understand.
Goodlatte criticizes the complexity of federal criminal laws.
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The fact of the matter is this Committee has jurisdiction over this narrower focus regarding protecting the Fourth Amendment.
I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.
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