mr. giuliano also believe that this does provide a sufficient period of time for us and at the forefront of the records, there is a provision in the bill that allows us and the court to order a technical assistance from the companies to make sure that the records are in the kind of form and format that will be useful to us. >> mr. like it? >> we believe 18 month retention period would be sufficient if the companies were to change their practices we would advise the committee spent so you're saying you are confident that the companies will retain the call records for 18 months? >> we actually can't say that. we dashed and they will retain the records for as long as their business requirements dictate, and they can change their business models and change they need for there. we will advise the committee if and when that happens is that affects our ability to conduct our intelligence mission. >> okay, thank you. mr. vice chairman. >> thanks, madam chair. mr. kohl come in your opinion is nsa section 215 both telephone and metadata collection program conducted in accord with our constitution

mr. giuliano will not give formal remarks unless you want to, and you will be able to answer questions. ate this committee's leadership and eight in civil effort is dedicated over the past year working with us to explore how we can increase the confidence of our fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authoritiauthoriti es they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our national security. the bill passed last month by the house would make some significant changes to the provisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. among other provisions, the bill would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the national security letter statute, and the pen register or trap and trace provision of fisa. it replaces the poker club 20 metadata collection program within a frame up the preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding the bulk metadata. to be clear, the president called for this transition not because the progr

mr. giuliano will. not give formal remarks unless you want to, and you'll be able to answer questions. begin.e, please >> thank you, chairman feinstein, vice chairman chambliss, and established members of the committee. we are pleased to express the for therations support bill recently passed by the house of representatives. i appreciate the leadership and the considerable effort of this committee in working with us to explore how we can increase the confidence of our fellow americans in their privacy being protected while providing our intelligence agencies with the authorities they need to acquire foreign intelligence that is so important to our national security. the bill passed by the house last month would make significant changes to the provisions of the foreign intelligence surveillance act that we believe will help us meet these two objectives. it would prohibit bulk collection of information under section 215, the national security letter statutes, and the pin trace commitments of fisa. it replaces the bulk metadata collection program with a new framework that preserves the ca