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Protect America Act of 2007

Floor Speech

By: Mel Watt
By: Mel Watt
Date: Aug. 4, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Judicial Branch


PROTECT AMERICA ACT OF 2007 -- (House of Representatives - August 04, 2007)

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Mr. WATT. Mr. Speaker, in North Carolina at 9:35 on a Saturday night, I doubt that there are any people who are worried about what this Congress is doing to their constitutional rights, and probably that is so for people throughout America. I doubt that many of them understand what a FISA court is. But what they do understand is they don't want to entrust their constitutional rights to the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They don't trust him, and rightfully so.

So when Mr. Issa says that we worry about what the terrorists might be thinking tomorrow, I worry about what they might be thinking tonight, because they must be thinking: You know, we might have won the battle, because we have the United States reacting and giving up its constitutional rights.

Vote against this bill.

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