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Usa Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020

Floor Speech

Date: March 11, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Elections

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Mr. CRAWFORD. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020.

I would also like to associate myself with the comments of my friend and colleague from Utah (Mr. Stewart).

I also acknowledge and applaud the efforts of the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. Nunes), whose tenacity brought this to bear. I appreciate his leadership on this issue.

This is a bipartisan piece of legislation that makes urgent and necessary reforms to the FISA process, which, as Inspector General Horowitz found 3 months ago, was misused to conduct illegal surveillance on Carter Page, a U.S. person.

This bill enhances requirements on the FBI and DOJ to ensure all applications are accurate and complete. This bill creates a compliance officer at the FBI who is directly responsible for making sure FBI agents are following the law.

This bill heightens criminal penalties to deter bad actors and other layers of review to root them out.

Finally, the bill reauthorizes three counterterrorism tools that are significantly important to our national security.

Madam Speaker, I rise to support this bill, and I urge a ``yes'' vote from my colleagues.

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