intelligence reporting on terrorist threats, leadership plans, intentions, counter proliferation, counter intelligence, and many other issues that affect us. it is subject to multiple layers of oversight and from the judicial, legislative branches. the surveillance court must approve minimization procedures for each relevant i.c. agency before the agency can review collected information. at the end of the day, fisa collection provides our government with the foreign intelligence that our nation needs to protect americans at home and abroad and in many cases our allies. i understand there is an ongoing debate pitting privacy against national security and there are arguments within the debate that have merit. as we all too painfully know,
intelligence reporting on terrorists threats, leadership plans, intentions, counter proliferation, counter intelligence and many other issues that affect us. it is subject to multiple layers of oversight and reporting requirements from the executive, the judicial and the legislative branches. the foreign intelligence surveillance court must approve minimization procedures for each relevant ic agency before the agency can review collected information. at the end of the day, fisa provides our government with the foreign intelligence that our nation needs to protect americans at home and abroad and in many cases our allies. i understand there is an ongoing debate pinning privacy against national security and there are argumentments within the debate that have merit.
republic of new jersey s stand and their tax. if i were running a little pweudz, it would be terrible. melissa: it s overwhelming. the time. the time is just as important. melissa: yeah. gentlemen, thanks to both of you. appreciate it. republican lawmakers saying they re ready to work closely with the president to enact his tax cut plan. and get the economy back on track. peter ducey is live on capitol hill. do we know how many leadership plans or how the leadership plans to move forward with the tax reform plan now? it s gonna be in their hands. reporter: we do, melissa. the speaker of the house, paul ryan, just announced that he wants to use this process called reconciliation, which they all used in their failed attempts to repeal and replace obamacare because with reconciliation, once the bill gets out of the house, if it does get out of the house, it will only need 51 votes in the senate and that means no democrats needed. we think reconciliation is the preferred process.
we have breaking news on the department of homeland security. we re told leadership plans to bring up a build to fund dhs as early as this afternoon. dana bash our chief congressional correspondent, broke this news. tell us more dana. reporter: that s right. i should say deirdre walsh and i got word late yesterday that they are going to use something that is kind of an arcane procedure to allow the clean bill the one that the democrats have been asking for pushing for a long time and conserveatives pushing back against but they will allow that to come for a vote on the floor. we were told today that that is likely to happen today. that the house republican leadership is going to just do it as soon as they are physically able to do so.
it, the guy who lives on the other end of pennsylvania avenue is never going to sign it into law. why go through the process? well jon, i will tell you, again, there was a message sent on november 2nd, and that is we need to focus on job creation and economic growth and a trillion dollars spending package and 92 percent increase overall we ve seen in nondefense discretionary spending in the last four years is something that troubles the american people and it troubles me greatly in our quest to try to reduce the size and scope and reach of government, so this was a priority issue and we told the american people that we were going to address it if we were able to come to a majority and that s exactly what we re going to do this week and next. jon: congressman david dreier is republican of california. always good to be with you jon. jon: thank you, thank you for coming in. jenna: house republicans, as we were just talking about, one of the priorities is for them getting out a budget