[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 26 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        MORE IMPORTANT NEWS THAN SHREDDING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT?

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the House of Representatives 
concluded a long and heated debate on the exclusionary rule. It was not 
on the evening news. I mean who knows or cares about obscure legal 
arguments? There was more important news: The OJ trial, 10 minutes on 
the pitiful howls of the dog, the baseball strike. Well, after all, the 
actions taken here on the floor only shredded the fourth amendment to 
the Constitution:
  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers 
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be 
violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported 
by oath or affirmation particularly describing the place to be searched 
and the persons or things to be seized.
  America, bar your doors, they do not need warrants anymore.

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