ise good news, cispa stalled. support for it -- i am sure there are a lot of people who voted for it in the house that after the snowden revelations came out wished they had not voted for cispa. it will be hard to get that thing moving again, hopefully, given all of the new information we have. finally, the patriot act is going to expire. good news. or provisions of it. what it means is, there is an opportunity, one of those slits that passes right where you can get if you photons in -- or you can get a few photons in. good news. those of the opportunities. i will close in and tell a quick story about my daughter. i have four children. 18, 16, 14, and 10. the youngest, i think, is the biggest civil libertarian of the grip. she was nine when i had a tree on my farm as a staff retreat on my farm. my wife said, where in the heck are they all point to leap -- going to sleep? i said we will kick the kids out of their bedrooms. my daughter, my nine-year-old daughter, i have --n surveilled everest in ever since she has b

that after the snowden reflat n revelations came out, wished they hadn't voted for cispa. it did stall in the senate. but i think it's going to be hard to get that thing moving again because of all of the new information that we have. finally, the patriot act is going to expire. what it means is there also an opportunity to get some reform. that's the good news. those are the opportunities. and, in closing, i'd tell a quick story about my daughter. i have four children, there are 18, 16, 14 and 10. aened t and the youngest one, i think, is the biggest civil libertarian one in the group. she was nine when i had a staffer team on my farm. i brought all 15 members of my staff to my farm to spend a couple of days. my wife said where in the heck are they all going to sleep? and i said well, we'll kick the kids out of their bedrooms, most of them have bunk beds and the kids can sleep on the floor in the living room. my nine-year-old daughter was waiting in the shadows and comes out of the shadows and says, "dad, are you really going to make me sleep on the floor just so those pe

they were qualified to vote on cispa would not have them vote for this. then we had the snowden revelations. who isngressman amash the person people go to in the house when i want to know what the legislation really does. he has an excellent staff. poor's these bills. he introduced an amendment to the dod appropriations bill to try to stop the bulk collection. it's probably more dangerous than the actual content. when they can realize how you are interacting socially with. he sought to rain that in. that is the first of the three bills i will discuss. was antell you why this amendment to an appropriations bill. the leadership and all the chairman of the committee's of respective jurisdictions do not want to reform the intelligence community's activities print they just don't want to do it. the house of representatives, because the committee structure and leadership structure, they have so much power. we can introduce all the wonderful bills we want. we're up to like hr 5600 in this congress. the leadership and the chairman decide which bills go to the flo