[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13941]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ANTITERRORISM LEGISLATION

  (Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, I am very happy to appear today as a member of 
the Committee on the Judiciary and a Member of this body very concerned 
about antiterrorism legislation that gives Government the tools it 
needs yet respects the rights of all of our citizens here to report to 
this House that we have worked out through the yeoman efforts of the 
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] of the Committee on the Judiciary a 
piece of legislation that we intended to bring to the floor of this 
House very shortly and that goes a long way toward giving the 
Government the tools that it needs within the bounds of civil 
liberties, yet does not represent a vast expansion of Federal 
electronic surveillance power and intrusive technique and does not 
erode the very strict separation between military and domestic law 
enforcement by weakening posse comitatus.
  I would like to report to the House that we will have before us a 
piece of legislation that will indeed strengthen our Government's hand 
to protect us against acts of terrorism yet is very mindful of the 
civil liberties that all of us, both individually and collectively, 
enjoy and should enjoy in this country.

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