[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2796]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          FISA REAUTHORIZATION

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, today is day 12, day 12 of diminished 
capabilities of the U.S. intelligence community to go out and get the 
information that they need to collect to keep America safe.
  Our National Director of Intelligence, the chairman of the Senate 
Intelligence Committee all have said that with the failure of the House 
to act on restoring and approving a FISA modernization bill America's 
capabilities erode each and every day.
  So what is the House going to do today? S. 2478, naming a post 
office; S. 2272, naming a post office. The third bill we'll consider 
today, naming a post office. The fourth bill, naming a post office. 
We'll do four other noncontroversial bills.
  And then what we will do? Will we take up FISA modernization? No, we 
will do the same thing we did 2 weeks ago: we will go home.
  The schedule for Friday? On Friday, no votes are expected. Our 
capabilities will diminish for 4 more days.
  ``House Democrats In a Perilous Game,'' is what The Republican of 
Springfield, Massachusetts, said. ``The House let a crucial deadline 
come and go without even taking a vote on this matter.''
  America's at greater risk because this House continues to fail to 
act.

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