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The debate is under an hour. Expires january 13. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Stewart mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of s. 139. On january 19, the fisa amendments acts of 2008 will expire. This vital legislation includes section 702 which permits the government to target foreign citizens located overseas to obtain foreign intelligence information. Section 702 is one of the most if not the most Critical National security tool used by our Intelligence Community to obtain intelligence on Foreign Terrorists located overseas. Now, some claim 702 vacuums bulk information without due regard...

Devoted to 56164 to approve the legislation. The Current Authority expires january 19. The debate is just under an hour. Section 702 is one of the most, if not the most Critical National security tool used by our Intelligence Committee to overseas. Elligent some claim 702 packages all information. This assertion is simply false. 702 is a targeted program was roughly 106,000 foreign targets worldwide. It given that the worldwide population is about 7. 5 billion, this program can hardly be described as a question. Improvise foreign adversaries who threaten the United States and locating them is ...

Abortion bill. The senate will debate a bill reauthorizes the fisa act. Watch the senate live on cspan2. House speaker paul ryan, thank you for coming. Members of your party are saying the changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massively right of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewr...

They need to be some fixes. What changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massive rewrite of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewrote our entire International Tax system on how we treat internation economics in cash flows. We knew that would need some revising. So far, not a lot really...

Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If...