I believe that senator schumer has concluded that he could taunt the leadership in the house of representatives, and that includes our speaker of the house, into brigham necessary at this legislation to the floor of the house because if it does, and if it should pass, the senate would conform with any amnesty legislation because they are controlled by democrats. And i have long known and long been restrained by people in my own party, mr. Speaker, from laying out the argument as to why almost every democrat i know wants open borders and amnesty and a neverending supply of illegal aliens in the United States of america. Its a pretty easy formula to figure out, especially if you sit here for 10 or a dozen years engaged in hearings and debate on a weekly basis, you begin to hear the threat of their conversation and you begin to understand the real truth behind their motives. And it works out to be this. Of course there are a large number of Illegal Immigrants in the United States. We have
Architecture. Thank you. Its been my pleasure to chat with you. [ applause ] coming up tonight on cspan 3, a Senate Hearing on nsa surveillance programs. After that from the atlantic council, a preview of the upcoming nato conference in britain. And later a Senate Hearing on employers who commit fraud by not paying payroll taxes. Now the warm sun and the kindly rain have brought crops. They are beginning to bend as a sign of ripeness. He strives into the field of gold and grain and takes a few for testing. He crushes the heads between his hands until the grain is separated. Agriculture was a devils bargain. We began by domesticating wheat and thats the way we always talk about it, but the fact is we domesticated us in some ways. We gave up the freedom to wander and hunt and gather. That may be better or worse for agriculture in some ways. But the fact is evolution made us to be that way. And we surrendered the conditions that we evolved under. Minnesota senator al franken has introduce
Constitute massive violations on americans privacy. The review group also concluded this. To information contributes terrorist investigations by section 215 was nonessential. They could have been obtained in , usingy manner conventional section 215 orders. Following pages, it said that section 215 provides relevant information in a small number of cases. Withsa cannot say confidence that the outcome would have been different without the alcock without program. On 215 the privacy implications of this sort of massive surveillance in the digital age cannot be overstated. The review group report provides valuable insight. It appropriately questions whether we are drawing a rational line between metadata and content. I think that is critically important, given that many of our surveillance laws depend upon the distinction. This is important as we take up the National Security letters. We do not talk as much about them. Using them, the fbi can obtain detailed information about individuals Co
In the implant mentation implementation of that to this day. First, at of the gift as evolutionary as you think. We still try to believe we are protecting the National Security. We still know the events that occurred on september 11, 2001, could happen again. And of course, that was written in the close aftermath of that. But it was also carefully crafted and vetted. It has been reauthorized with some changes over that time will stop over that time. But nonetheless, the majority of the provisions in that are valid and important. And theres still some is agreement about some of the provisions, but not most of the provisions in that legislation. Our trouble here, and i will let Jim Sensenbrenner address this because he can do so better than i can, but our trouble here is be carefully considered what section 215 should be used for. They used it for purposes different than what i believe congress intended, and certainly the vote here today reflects that. If that same question were asked ba
National security, but including, also, the risk to public trust, risk to privacy, risk to economic values and risk to democratic self governance. So, a major task Going Forward, what our report tries to thread a needle on is to try to ensure a full set of rirkss are taken into account and we arent optimizing only along one dimension. The third point is the importance of accountability which is a unifying theme for our 46 recommendations. Accountability to senior level policy officials, accountability to the legal system, to congress and this committee through increased transparency and disclosure and above all to the American People. Through transparency and disclosure. And i should emphasize that one form of accountability includes steps that would help increase public trust not just within the United States but throughout the world. This is a Diverse Group as noted. We reached all of our recommendations, this is a bit of an upset, by agreement. There are no dissents. There was no ho