[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  FISA

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, FISA is a major issue. Great nations in 
history have failed and been defeated by becoming soft from within. I 
see dangers of doing that here.
  I know that my colleagues across the aisle, the 170 or so who did not 
support FISA being passed into law last August, are very compassionate 
people. I've seen the hurt in your eyes. I've seen how it troubles your 
soul when you see people hurting and killed and maimed. What we're 
asking here is to do the intelligence and allow the intelligence 
community to protect us so we don't have to experience the horror of 
seeing Americans killed and maimed.
  We're losing valuable intelligence every day that we do not pass this 
important, valuable bill. The proposal was made, let's just keep 
extending it a week at a time. You cannot do extensive intelligence on 
a week-to-week basis. We cannot put our country at risk. This House has 
other things planned today other than this critical issue that could be 
a nation-saving measure.

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