[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 29, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PERMANENT FIX FOR FISA

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on 
the Democrat majority to pass a permanent fix to our Nation's foreign 
surveillance law and give our intelligence community the tools they 
need to protect American families.
  It has been 6 months since this body passed a temporary patch to the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. If Congress fails to pass a 
permanent fix, our Nation's intelligence community will once again be 
limited in their ability to track terrorists and defeat their efforts 
to murder Americans.
  In his State of the Union address last night, President Bush 
reiterated to Members of both parties that the time to act is now. On 
this most important of issues, we owe it to the American people not to 
put American families at risk.
  We can all agree that the safety and well-being of our Nation's 
families is our utmost priority, so let's work together on an agreement 
that will ensure that we meet the challenge of defending our Nation for 
the long term. Our enemies will not hesitate to exploit our 
intelligence loopholes. It is imperative that we not give them that 
opportunity.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September 11th.

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