[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18658]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   USA FREEDOM ACT PRESERVES LIBERTY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  

  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, thanks to a measure Congress passed earlier 
this year, at 11:59 p.m. this past Saturday, the National Security 
Agency ended its collection of Americans' telephone call data.
  After revelations about NSA data collection that many Americans, 
myself included, believe violated Fourth Amendment protections against 
search and seizure, Congress passed the USA Freedom Act to end this 
activity. Despite violating privacy of millions of Americans, this 
program had never generated intelligence that prevented terrorist 
activity. Americans spoke out, and Congress acted.
  Our Nation's security should be the government's first priority, yet 
we should never sacrifice liberty for a program that doesn't even 
increase our safety. As Benjamin Franklin stated: ``Those who give up 
essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve 
neither liberty nor safety.''

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