mr. nadler. mr. nadler: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. nadler: thank you. madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nadler: i rise in strong support of s. 2746. the law enforcement suicide data collection act. which requires the f.b.i. to establish a data collection program that gathers data on law enforcement and former law enforce. suicides at local, state, and federal levels. we consider this bill today in response to a growing epidemic of law enforce. suicide in america. tragically, more than 227 u.s. law enforcement officers took their own lives last year, an increase of more than 50 deaths from the year before. while law enforcement officers are tasked with the responsibility of protected our communities and responding to often dangerous eme

mr. nadler: bills like the u.s.a. freedom act, u.s.a. freedom restoration act touch deeply held beliefs on all sides. the bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. the bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. now you may disagree with that assessment. you may genuinely believe that the bill doesn't go far enough to reform the fisa system or perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. if you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. i cannot accept and what i accept many americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flip-flop on this bill. a bill important both to the security and the privacy of the united states. just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a good amendment with almost universal support. virtually all of those 126 republicans change their

mr. nadler: madam speaker, for purposes of debate only i yield 30 minutes to the gentleman from ohio, mr. jordan. i now yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. nadler: bills like the u.s.a. freedom act, u.s.a. freedom restoration act touch deeply held beliefs on all sides. the bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. the bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. now you may disagree with that assessment. you may genuinely believe that the bill doesn't go far enough to reform the fisa system or perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. if you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. i cannot accept and what i accept many americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flip-flop on this bill. a bill important both to the security and the privacy of the united states. just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats i

mr. nadler of new york, and the chair of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff of california, to committees of jurisdiction. it had strong bipartisan support, it went over to the senate. in my view, it was vastly improved in the senate and it had 80 votes. our bill was bipartisan. their bill was bipartisan too. 80 votes in the united states senate for the senate bill, which was amended by the leahy-lee amendment. very, very protective of the balance that we have to have between security and privacy. security and civil liberties. this is the balance that we have to strike. in my years on intelligence, i was focused a lot on the civil liberties part of it, establishing a board, etc., to ensure that whatever we did, that balance with our civil liberties was central and important to it. as benjamin franklin said, security and liberty, you can't have one without the other. they go together. security and liberty. and so now today, this rules committee is presenting that bill, the u.s. freedom re-authorization act, coming back from the senate. again, our bill in

mr. nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. chairman, we find ourselves moment.tical 1.4 million americans are sick. died. 90,000 people have 36 million americans are out of work. in new york have been at the epicenter of this pandemic for months. while this bill is not perfect, t goes far to support the country and new yorkers. first and foremost, state and local governments will see in funding tolion fill the massive gaps in their budgets and prevent huge cuts to critical services. for new york state, new york city, that funding will mean a recovery and ween total economic collapse. i am proud to hear it includes i introduced, the covid-19 correctional facility mergency response act, for testing, treatment, and prevention of covid-19 in jails. and and another that will make sure that our brave first responders disabled get ome their benefits. the bill also includes many of the judiciary committee like additional funding for the violence against of n to address the surge domestic violenc

mr. nadler of new york, and the chair of the intelligence committee, mr. schiff of california, to committees of jurisdiction. it had strong bipartisan support, it went over to the senate. in my view, it was vastly improved in the senate and it had 80 votes. our bill was bipartisan. their bill was bipartisan too. 80 votes in the united states senate for the senate bill, which was amended by the leahy-lee amendment. very, very protective of the balance that we have to have between security and privacy. security and civil liberties. this is the balance that we have to strike. in my years on intelligence, i was focused a lot on the civil liberties part of it, establishing a board, etc., to ensure that whatever we did, that balance with our civil liberties was central and important to it. as benjamin franklin said, security and liberty, you can't have one without the other. they go together. security and liberty. and so now today, this rules committee is presenting that bill, the u.s. freedom re-authorization act, coming back from the senate. again, our bill in

mr. liu? >> thank you, chairwoman, for your leadership on this issue. i want to thank chairman nadler for his leadership of the full committee, and thank you to the witnesses for the powerful testimony today. mr. patton, you mentioned in your opening remarks terminal island prison. that's a facility in southern california that has approximately a 70% infection rate of covid-19 and at least eight inmates have died. there are numerous other prisons that you noted that have similar high infection rates with inmates dying. that is one of the reasons we wrote a letter to the federal bureau of prisons asking to release all inmates into home confinement and come up with a plan for other facilities, and why congressman jeffries and i wrote a letter to the inspector general asking him to investigate the bureau of risen -- of prison and department of justice's inadequate response to the covid-19 outbreaks. my two questions to you have to do with the legal standard for cruel and unusual punishment. as you know, the first prong that has to be met is an objective standard where there is a substant

mr. nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. chairman, we find ourselves moment.tical 1.4 million americans are sick. died. 90,000 people have 36 million americans are out of work. in new york have been at the epicenter of this pandemic for months. while this bill is not perfect, t goes far to support the country and new yorkers. first and foremost, state and local governments will see in funding tolion fill the massive gaps in their budgets and prevent huge cuts to critical services. for new york state, new york city, that funding will mean a recovery and ween total economic collapse. i am proud to hear it includes i introduced, the covid-19 correctional facility mergency response act, for testing, treatment, and prevention of covid-19 in jails. and and another that will make sure that our brave first responders disabled get ome their benefits. the bill also includes many of the judiciary committee like additional funding for the violence against of n to address the surge domestic violenc

mr. chairman. >> i would like to begin by thanking you and chairman nadler chairman jeffries for your leadership on this critical issue. thank you for your extraordinary tok and for your courage share a very painful story about what you have experience as a family and thank you mr. patton for being a defender of liberty and being with us today. hearing the stories about the conditions in which we are finding ourselves is appalling. the notion, as chairman jeffries individuals in custody are facing the very real prospect of contracting a deadly virus is something no one on this community, no one in the country should find acceptable. i have a mother who has copd and she lives with my dad. she is 80 years old and i am terrified she would get this virus. i cannot imagine what families like angela's -- this is something we have a responsibility to shine a light on and that is what the purpose of this roundtable is. my question is i received a very disturbing email from someone in otisville. just a horrible experience, just like ms. caldwell, they were told a bunch of different things people were put

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mr. nadler: bills like the u.s.a. freedom act, u.s.a. freedom restoration act

mr. nadler: bills like the u.s.a. freedom act, u.s.a. freedom restoration act touch deeply held beliefs on all sides. the bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. the bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. now you may disagree with that assessment. you may genuinely believe that the bill doesn't go far enough to reform