mr. ratcliffe and mr. richmond for their leadership and for the importance of this legislation on the floor today. and again something that i have often said, the importance of the department of homeland security being the front armor if you will, for domestic security. and this is a very important component of domestic security. the jeel-polis amendment states that not later than 60 months after the date of this act the comptroller of the united states shall submit to the committee on homeland security of the house of representatives and the committee on homeland security and government affairs of the senate an assessment on the impact of privacy and civil liberties limited to the work of the national cybersecurity and communications integration center. the public benefit of this amendment is that it will provide public assurance from reliable and trustworthy source their privacy and siff civil liberties are not being compromised. the patriot act, that is now proposed, the american people understand their

mr. ratcliffe, for his work on this bill. as well as our minority counterparts, including ranking member thompson and subcommittee

mr. ratcliffe: i yield to mr. mcarthur from new jersey. it was included in the president's budget and here we are today. along with the gentleman from texas, i'm bringing this amendment and fighting against it for two reasons. first, braque is not cost effective. as was mentioned, the 2005 bureaucratic was supposed to cost $21 billion. mr. macarthur: just a few years later it's sky ronthed to $35 million. reduced by 73%. it cost the taxpayer more and saved them less and what's more the department of defense won't even recoup its upfront costs until 2018. 13 years after it started. second i oppose brac because it destroys local economies. i know this all too well as fort month moth in my home state was shuttered in 2005. that area is still recovering from the loss. my district is home to joint base ma gire which is responsible for 105,000 local jobs in southern new jersey. it's a $7 billion impact on just one local community and like so many other military bases around the country it's the backbone of our community. if it closed the area wo