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Fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our National Security. The bill passed by the house last month would make some significant changes to the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. Among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the National Security letter statutes, and the pen register trap and trace provisions of fisa. It replace...

Possessing a firearm. Do you believe that congress should repeal this law . As far as my position is concerned, again, the aba has not taken on position on that. I think we have to look again at the individual involved and the individual crime. So for example, weve had cases, and Domestic Violence is something thats certainly on my radar screen personally and my office. Something just like child abuse that we take very seriously. When we have a Domestic Violence case i think we have to look, is that person an owner of guns . Or does that person use a gun . I think those are the distinctions th...

Performance. Now live to the house floor. In the prayer will be offered today by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We pause now in your presence and acknowledge our dependence on you. We ask your blessing upon the men and women of this, the peoples house, keep them aware of that presence as they face the tasks of this day that no burden be too heavy, no duty oo difficult and no work too wearisome. Help them and indeed help us all to obey your law, to do your will and to walk in your way. Grant that they might be...

Island and for the last 20 years have kept you working, but this downturn closed your company or pushed you out, those skills are out of date. Good workers, long work history, they need not only the help to retrain but they certainly need the help to get from day to day to day until they get back into the work force. With that, madam president , let me again commend and thank the sponsors and the authors of this legislation and yield the floor. Mr. Isakson i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Harkin i ask further proceedings under ...

Now house intelligence chair mike rogers talks about the violence and instability in iraq. Congressman rogers spoke to reporters at an event hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Representative mike rogers, chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence, this is his first visit with our group and we appreciate his starting his morning this way. He grew up in michigan, graduated from Adrian College there. After serving in the army our guest became an fbi special agent, specializing in public Corruption Cases in chicago. He returned to michigan in 94 and was elected to the state senat...