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Derrick Van Orden: “The legislative council in the House of Representative…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Congressman Derrick Van Orden Discussing His FISA Reauthorization Vote (FISA)

Published | Video Starts at 04:32

So the amendment that these guys put in, it sounded great. It's like, hey, you're going to be prohibited from doing warrantless wiretaps on American citizens. Right. That's the initial amendment they put in, but The legislative council in the House of Representative changed the verbiage from US Citizen to US Persons. And you think, oh, that's no big deal. In fact, it is. So a US person, if you go on the DHS website, it's dhs.gov and look up immigrant classes … (04:32–04:40)

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Asserts that the legislative council changed the wording in an amendment from 'US Citizen' to 'US Persons.'

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