[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2199-2200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SECURING OUR HOMELAND

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, we are hearing a good bit about national 
security today; and whether it is ports or the PATRIOT Act, we know 
that there are things that we in this body can do and steps we can take 
to be certain that America is a safer place for our children, for our 
families to live, to work, to enjoy our lives.
  Mr. Speaker, the PATRIOT Act as it comes back around and as we hear

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more about this and hear more about the reauthorization of this, I 
would encourage our colleagues to remember this is a tool that has 
proven to be successful and useful in our national security. It has 
proven to be a useful tool in keeping America safe. It has proven to be 
useful to law enforcement. It deserves reauthorization. It deserves 
reconsideration, and I encourage all Members of this body to support 
reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act.

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