[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 27 (Friday, February 18, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2011

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                               speech of

                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 17, 2011

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 1) making 
     appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other 
     departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes:

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Chair, this bipartisan amendment places a 
reasonable limit on the Government's ability to spy on American 
citizens using Patriot Act powers, by narrowly targeting the Patriot 
Act provision which allows the Government to seize library or bookstore 
records to determine what Americans are reading and thinking. 
Protection against this type of intrusion into our thoughts and minds 
is at the heart of our most fundamental freedoms and what it means to 
be an American. For these reasons, I vote in favor of the Nadler/
Conyers amendment.

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