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This brought up right now. we can take the trade bill up after this. but with the clock ticking and with this bill set to expire the patriot act set to expire at the end of the month and both houses set to adjourn at the end of this week, i think this needs to come up right now. senator you talk about americans not wanting the government to collect all kiepds of kinds of data, especially phone data. there seems to be a divide on this issue in your party in particular. chris christie said on monday you can t enjoy your civil liberties if you re in a coffin. what do you say to that line of criticism? look, none of us wants to be in that position. but it is a false choice, it is an absolute false choice to say that you either have to reauthorize, to extend the patriot act authority as is without modification, without protections for the american people, or we re all going to die. that is a disingenuous comment, and i think he should retract that statement. but we have carefully bala ....