You know, it really bothers me that we’re compromising on how much tyranny they can enforce on us. I’m sick of compromising my Liberties and Rights away.
The Government needs to compromise a bit. Since they like spying on us so much, what functions and agencies of the Government are they willing to remove? IRS? ATF? DEA? They need to pick at least three $1 billion or more a year agencies and their functions to eliminate. This means, the Government doesn’t move the functions over somewhere else but entirely stops those functions and removes them from Federal Government jurisdiction.
Bipartisan
I’m willing to accept Mike Lee’s opinion on this. I don’t like the WOT and what it’s doing to our liberties, but we’re not going to get back to Constitutional liberties in a single go.
Work to do what? I'm not interested in compromises about my privacy and freedom from government surveillance and the potential oppression that comes with because I don't think they have any business to vacuum up every RF and digital bit they can from our lives.
If that's what they want, then I don't want any part of it, nor the representatives that endorse it.
Lee working with the likes of Conyers and Leahy is as bad as Rubio getting in bed with Schumer. Worse, maybe; I had higher hopes for Lee.
Et tu, Mike?
I worked diligently on a bipartisan and bicameral basis
A double “bi”.... We are screwed and where in the hell is my dictionary for this bicameral.
Is that a double hump camel?
This is disappointing. Sen. Lee does not present any argument or evidence for why this bill should pass. Only that we must keep doing what we’ve been doing, that people worked really really hard on it, and basically, all legislation sucks because it’s a compromise.
Heard this all before.
Sen. Lee, make a rational argument about why we should give up freedom and privacy. This is a big time fail.
USA “Freedom” Act, huh?
I’ll bet my last dollar that this bill is about anything but “freedom”.
These liars in DC always declare themselves by the phony titles of their bills.
And whatever Obama is for, I’m against.
More comprehensive tyranny from the thugs in DC. Left, right, middle - they all seem to love tyranny if it is for the children. Funny how none of this garbage would have have stopped anything.
....even after all those ‘thousand of hours of work’ did the act stop the ‘boston bombers’ ??? NO, so what is sooo important that the NSA wants to know who you called, when you called, what you talked about, where you went, how long were you there, who else do you know, do you go to church, did you go to Denny’s for breakfast, how long were you there, who did you talk to????
This ‘act’ needs to die !!!!!
This bill still leaves the FISA Court as the ruler on all subpoena requests, and they reject almost none of those requests.
So, this bill is no real improvement. Vote it down.
What in the wide world of sports in going on??? First Cruz co-writing an Op-Ed in support of 0bamaTrade, and now Sen Lee joining forces with Conyers???? And, Leahy???
This is coming from a congress that has a 6% Approval.
Even the Dictator in North Korea has a higher Approcal rate.
So it’s no surprise.
See folks the Republicans will not save this Republic.
1) They are doing nothing about the open borders
2) They are leaving Obama Care in and not even trying to repeal it.
3) They are voting for the Un Patriotic Act that that primary targets Americans.
4) They seem to support the Trans Pacific Partnership that’s being hidden from the American public.
So tell me again how is voting for the Republicans going to save our Republic? We did it and this is the crap we get in return.
As far as I’m concerned the Republican party has told tea party/Conservatives to go F*ck themselves.
How can you have confidence when the Republican elected leaders in congress are John Boehner and Mitch McConnell that are doing everything in their power to push the Obama agenda through?
If a republican was president there would be a hugeoutcry over this, instead of a little one comprised of freedom and liberty lovers.
Interesting. After reading this article I doubt McConnell was tripped up by Rand Paul. Just as was the case with TPA, McConnell wants it passed without any debate.
Could be best bill ever but that alone warrants a no vote.