Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that
Given. Encourage the members of this house, o god, to use their abilities and talents in ways that bring righteousness to this nation. And to all people. Ever remind them of the needs of the poor, the homeless, or forgotten, and those who live without freedom or liberty. May they be instruments of justice for all americans. We are grateful for the success of the recent negotiations between the president and congressional leaders on the debt limit and the budget caps deal. And ask your blessing on them and on those now charged with moving the business of government and the National Economy forward. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, men. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition . Madam speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1,
Border. It is a manufactured crisis. We are working on a manufactured crisis. Thats very sensitive. Now democrats taken a very different tune, so why the sudden change of heart and talking point . It could be the situation at the border is disastrous. It could also be a chance to score political points. For instance massachusetts democratic senator and president ial hopeful and a butterfly, liz warren held a protest at a Migrant Detention Center in florida. She even climbed up the ladder. So brave and waved it to people on the other side of the fence while demanding her treatment for those caught up in her problem claim never existed. Many democrats claimed the president invited in the crisis for his own political gain into gain support of the border wall. Today the president said democrats are the reason everything has gotten so bad. You have the right laws that the democrats are not letting us have. Those people they would not be coming up. Children are actually being brought into sl
Border. It is a manufactured crisis. We are working on a manufactured crisis. Thats very sensitive. Now democrats taken a very different tune, so why the sudden change of heart and talking point . It could be the situation at the border is disastrous. It could also be a chance to score political points. For instance massachusetts democratic senator and president ial hopeful and a butterfly, liz warren held a protest at a Migrant Detention Center in florida. She even climbed up the ladder. So brave and waved it to people on the other side of the fence while demanding her treatment for those caught up in her problem claim never existed. Many democrats claimed the president invited in the crisis for his own political gain into gain support of the border wall. Today the president said democrats are the reason everything has gotten so bad. You have the right laws that the democrats are not letting us have. Those people they would not be coming up. Children are actually being brought into sl