[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12703]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       TIME TO REAWAKEN IN OUR PEOPLE THE COURAGE OF THE FOUNDERS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, a reading from the book of James, 
Madison that is.
  The fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States: The 
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and 
effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be 
violated.
  That amendment was passed in 1791. In 2006, the administration is 
getting the banking records of millions of Americans without a warrant. 
The government wants to know who you write checks to, who writes checks 
to you. They want to flag those transactions and investigate without a 
warrant legal, private conduct. Under the PATRIOT Act, they can monitor 
wire transfers, ATM and credit card transactions.
  This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of our Declaration 
of Independence, we find 150,000 troops in Iraq so the people there can 
have the very rights we are losing at home.
  It is time to reawaken in our people the courage of the Founders, the 
spirit that founded a free Nation so that we can remain a free Nation. 
That struggle is not in Iraq. It is here in America.

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