Jim Sensenbrenner

A few minutes ago, the distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich) called for not reauthorizing temporarily three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, allegedly because the FBI had found civil liberties violations. In his 1-minute…

At the outset, let me say I'm a little bit puzzled that my friend from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) is opposing the extension of these three provisions of the Patriot Act today because last year, he called up a Senate bill that provided for a…

There has been a lot said about national security letters. The authority for them was made permanent in 2006. It is not a part of this bill, so we ought to completely forget about the complaints about national security letters. What I will…

The only thing I would add, this goes beyond child exploitation because every type of crime that we worry about is committed through online means now.

At this point, the Chair asks unanimous consent that a statement by Ernie Allen of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children be inserted in the record.

Every piece of discarded information could be the footprint of a child predator.

If you aren't a good rabbit and don't start eating the carrot, I am afraid that we are all going to be throwing the stick at you.

It seems to me that one of the problems that exists in this area is that there is not a uniform standard for how long the data has to be retained.

I am a firm believer in carrots and sticks, and I am tossing you a carrot now.

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I fear what would happen if December 31st comes and goes and the three expiring provisions effectively do expire.

In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed with wide bipartisan support.

I do take a little bit of a pride of authorship in the fact that with the Sensenbrenner PATRIOT Act, 15 of the 17 expanded law enforcement provisions either went unchallenged as to their constitutionality in almost 8 years.

I'm very curious at the fact that most of the discussion of the questions and answers has been on national security letters.

Congress must reauthorize the expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act before December 31st of this year, and the clock is ticking.