Massie on the NSA amendment in the defense bill

Dec 4, 2014 · 2:06 surveillance fourth-amendment

He asks the House not to strip an amendment that would block the NSA from forcing companies to build surveillance backdoors.

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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
passed a historic Amendment to the fiscal year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations act the amendment was offered by myself and Miss Lofgren along
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
calls of US citizens the amendment also prohibits the NSA and CIA from requiring technology companies to place back doors
in their products our Amendment passed the house by an overwhelming bipartisan and veto proof majority 293 to
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
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
it into the Appropriations bill there's been some discussion unfortunately of recent uh talk if you
will that this amendment will be stripped from the Omnibus if that is the case I think it does belong in the ndaa
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
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
constituents I would hope we would listen to our constituents today U include Provisions to reform the NSA
particularly provision to uh stop the backdoor warrantless spying on Americans in this NDA and I thank the gentleman
for yielding time and uh urge you to include this in the in the underlying bill

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