[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24686]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              REENACT FISA

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the 
House Judiciary Committee we heard from Admiral McConnell, who is the 
Director of National Intelligence, over the need for us to reenact that 
bill which we passed just 1\1/2\ months ago which reformed FISA, which 
of course is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
  Mr. Speaker, probably in the 3 years that I have been here, in my 
second tour of duty as a Member of Congress, no more important bill did 
I vote on than voting the passage of a reform of FISA.
  The admiral indicated that two-thirds of our foreign terrorist 
targets were blinded from our review as a result of a FISA court 
decision under the old FISA. That is why we needed to pass the reform. 
We put a 6-month leash on it, that is, it will go out of existence in 6 
months.
  There is no more important thing for this body to do than to pass a 
reform of FISA that makes permanent the changes that we adopted just 
1\1/2\ months ago. Our Nation depends on it. Our children and our 
grandchildren's future depends on it. Let's make sure we act 
responsibly.

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