Jim Sensenbrenner: “You have made Joe McCarthy look like a piker with what you've done with the electronic surveillance involved.”

I appeal that ruling of the Chair as well, which I believe is appealable. The SPEAKER pro tempore. That ruling is not subject to appeal. The question is on the passage of the joint resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro…

I think that this markup has been a lot better than it could have been, and I think the chairman has been probably very evenhanded on that.

And that is not what the law said, and it is not what the law should be.

I am no stranger to this debate. In the aftermath of 9/11, I stood on this floor to advance the USA PATRIOT Act. I still believe, as I did at the time, in its necessity to protect our country from terrorist attacks. In 2015, after abuses…