Thomas Massey

Yeah, just they won't let you put gas in the tank.

You won't be able to travel.

They'll just, you know, they can control everything if they can control the currency.

It's bad enough.

But we sent that deal to the Senate.

I didn't vote for that deal, but some people did.

It went to the Senate, and the Senate laughed at that deal, threw it in the trash, and sent a clean reauthorization of FISA back to the House with a 45-day expiration.

And everybody but me suggested we should just let that pass by unanimous consent and folks could get on their airplanes and go home.

And I said, I don't think so.

Like an infringement of the Constitution for 45 days is still an infringement of the Constitution.

And by the way, we've known about this problem for as long as I've been in Congress.

I've been offering and passing amendments to defund this part of the FISA program.

It's not something new.

It's like a florist being surprised by Valentine's Day.

We knew this date was coming.

And so I stood up and I objected and they said, okay, well now we gotta have a debate over this bill.

And Jim Jordan got 20 minutes and Jamie Raskin got 20 minutes as the chair and the ranking member of the Committee of Jurisdiction, the Judiciary Committee.

And at that point, I stood up and told the Speaker that I want 20 minutes in actual opposition to the bill.

Well, the president told him to.

Yeah, but that's like a core.