Russ Feingold: “On the national security letters, we will have to agree to disagree and continue to debate this and come to a similar…”

“On the national security letters, we will have to agree to disagree and continue to debate this and come to a similar conclusion with regard to what the conference report did vis-a-vis the Senate bill. Perhaps we could agree on how valuable it would be in light of how serious these concerns are about the national security letters, for that provision at least to be part of the group of provisions subject to a sunset. I want to point out to my colleagues with regard to these national security letters that there may have been 30,000 issued, according to the Washington Post, per year. That power is not sunsetted. That is troubling. I yield the floor.”