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gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for 2 minutes thank you uh Mr Speaker on June 19th 2014 the House of Representative

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passed a historic Amendment to the fiscal year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations act the amendment was offered by myself and Miss Lofgren along

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with several of our house colleagues our Amendment blocks government bureaucrats from performing backdoor warrantless searches through the private email of the private email content and telephone

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calls of US citizens the amendment also prohibits the NSA and CIA from requiring technology companies to place back doors

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in their products our Amendment passed the house by an overwhelming bipartisan and veto proof majority 293 to

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123 now some of those who did not vote for the amendment told me that they thought the proper place for this amendment was in the ndaa not in an

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Appropriations act and I tend to agree with them I'd like to see that in the ndaa but our only opportunity was to put

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it into the Appropriations bill there's been some discussion unfortunately of recent uh talk if you

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will that this amendment will be stripped from the Omnibus if that is the case I think it does belong in the ndaa

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this year because this is the bill that authorizes these programs that we we've heard so much about you know Americans were horrified to learn that the

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government was spying on them without even bothering to get a warrant and the overwhelming number of members who voted in favor of the Massie Lofgren Amendment did so because they listened to their

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constituents I would hope we would listen to our constituents today U include Provisions to reform the NSA

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particularly provision to uh stop the backdoor warrantless spying on Americans in this NDA and I thank the gentleman

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for yielding time and uh urge you to include this in the in the underlying bill