mr. sensenbrenner. you mentioned the sensenbrenner patriot act of course, i mentioned the one from the of the rules committee that was a very mysterious activity in which nobody ever found out there were no fingerprints on the new belfast the sensenbrenner pager fact which i suppose mr. sensenbrenner wrote that night and got up there because nobody ever saw it in the judiciary committee but it is one of those mysteries in the legislative process that have not been fully examined and maybe we would get a judiciary committee chairman are maybe even a constitutional subcommittee chairman that will step up to the plate and find out how a several hundred page bill could be substituted for another in the middle of the night. the rules committee was meeting after midnight when this was acted upon. i own they digressed to show you that to there has been bipartisanship on the rules committee. there are very few important bills in which ever republican and every democrat votes in its favor and that is what happen

mr. jim sensenbrenner. the house passed nearly identical bill in the 110th congress, and unfortunately that's as far as the bill got. hopefully we can get some movement on this measure this time around. by enhancing the department of energy's research program in heavy duty hybrid trucks, this bill draws much-needed focus to a very critical component of the transportation sector, that being commercial trucks. we have repeatedly learned the hard way just how much the health of our economy can hinge on the commercial transportation sector. costly fuel translates directly into higher prices for consumers since the large majority of products we consume or use from food to building materials are at some point transported by a medium to heavy-duty truck. we must take measures to ensure that this remains a vibrant economic sector. the heavy truck sector also plays a role in our energy security and environmental health. approximately one-fourth of the nation's fuel use and the majority of transportation-based emissi

mr. jarman for five minutes. >> chairman at work, ranking member sensenbrenner, thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalfof the american civil liberties union as congress revisits the patriot act. the patriot act vastly and unconstitutional the expanded the authority typically into people's private lives with little or no evidence of wrongdoing violating the for the men back protections against reasonable searches and seizures, first amendment protections against free speech and associations. worse it allows expanded supply and to take place in secret with few protections to ensure powers are not abused and little opportunity for congress to determine whether these authorities are doing anything to make america the three expiring provisions give congress the opportunity as the department of justice september 14 letter suggested to carefully examine how these expired authorities expanded authorities in pact americans privacy. we urge congress to broaden its review to include all post 9/11 domestic intelligence programs including foreign intelligence surveillance act amendments and a new attorney general g

mr. conyers for an0% statement. >> thank you chairman nadler and i wanted to thank jim sensenbrenner for his recapitulation of those days in the judiciary committee of where so much happened. i'm also pleased to see tom evans our former colleague from delaware back on the hill. now, the patriot act is nearly 8 years old after many hearings and multiple inspector general reports of the use and abuse of this law and after much work by scholars in the field we've learned that since this law was rushed through congress in the week after the 9/11 attack we have to recall this with some specificity. the hearings that then chairman sensenbrenner referred to were leading up to a bill that was sent to rules committee that never got out of rules committee. and that bill that the chairman and me the ranking member worked on so carefully was unanimously reported out of the house judiciary committee. record vote. and then the bill went to the rules committee and then chairman drier under lord knows whose instructions substituted that bill for another bill that we in judiciary had never seen. and so we come here today now to con

mr. conyers for an0% statement. >> thank you chairman nadler and i wanted to thank jim sensenbrenner for his recapitulation of those days in the judiciary committee of where so much happened. i'm also pleased to see tom evans our former colleague from delaware back on the hill. now, the patriot act is nearly 8 years old after many hearings and multiple inspector general reports of the use and abuse of this law and after much work by scholars in the field we've learned that since this law was rushed through congress in the week after the 9/11 attack we have to recall this with some specificity. the hearings that then chairman sensenbrenner referred to were leading up to a bill that was sent to rules committee that never got out of rules committee. and that bill that the chairman and me the ranking member worked on so carefully was unanimously reported out of the house judiciary committee. record vote. and then the bill went to the rules committee and then chairman drier under lord knows whose instructions substituted that bill for another bill that we in judiciary had never seen. and so we come here today now to con