The Feinstein bill I think is a joke because it basically prohibits bulk collection, except as authorized under a subsection, which authorizes the intelligence community to keep on doing business as usual.

I don't believe that's workable, not without seriously affecting the operation of the program and creating new data privacy concerns.

And it cannot be permitted to stand, and it won't be permitted to stand.

The FREEDOM Act is the only piece of legislation that attempts to comprehensively address this problem in a way that I think will get the support of a majority of the Members of both the House and the Senate.

I am very worried about an intelligence review structure where the Administration and the FISCs could sanction this.

Congress never did intend to allow bulk collections when it passed Section 215, and no fair reading of the text would allow for this program.

I was the principal author of the PATRIOT Act that was signed by President Bush in 2001, and I also was the principal author of the two reauthorizations in 2006 and in 2011.

I would urge you to hurry up and to get the big place together.

I'm disappointed that he decided, evidently at the last minute, to pursue changes in the telephone metadata program recommended by his review group.

Putting a private contractor between NSA and the data would compromise the utility and responsiveness of this asset.

Why should we needlessly forego these potentially important intelligence leads?