Dear john ,
I hope that you and your family enjoyed a beautiful Easter weekend last week. I think I speak for most of us when I say we were rooting for the NC State Wolfpack to go all the way in both the men's and women's leagues. Unfortunately, it was not to be - here's hoping that next year, we have North Carolina teams in both championships!
Unlike our esteemed Vice President, you likely already know that women’s basketball brackets were “allowed” well before 2022. Yikes!
OOPS: Women’s college basketball not “allowed to have brackets until 2022,” says Kamala Harris in North Carolina
Congress will return to Washington this upcoming week, and I’ll be sure to keep you updated via social media and this newsletter.
Get a Warrant!
This upcoming week, we will likely see the return of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) legislation to the House floor.
This mass surveillance authority is regularly abused by the Intelligence Community to spy on Americans – most famously, on then-candidate Trump in 2016 – in total violation of the Fourth Amendment.
In fact, in 2022 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued a report detailing major violations of the law surrounding the FBI’s ability to query, or search, the Section 702 database. In all, the FISC identified “278,000 non-compliant queries...of raw FISA-acquired information."
My demand is simple – authorities must get a warrant, as they are required to for any other search, if they wish to gain access to Americans’ communications. The American people expect their government to protect them against foreign threats, not to abuse their power to go after American citizens.
SUE for Immigration Act
Last month, I introduced the Standing Up to the Executive Branch for Immigration Enforcement Act (The SUE for Immigration Enforcement Act) with my friend and colleague, Rep. Chip Roy, to give state Attorneys General the ability to sue the federal government if DC bureaucrats refuse to enforce our nation’s immigration laws.
READ: SUE for Immigration Enforcement Act
As I said at the time - President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas are pursuing a disastrous open borders policy at any cost, including repeatedly and flagrantly violating federal immigration law.
In the face of this administration’s relentless pursuit of lawlessness, chaos, and destruction, it’s imperative that Congress support states as they stand in the breach in defense of our sovereignty.
READ: Reps seek to establish states’ ability to defend borders in challenge to Biden administration
In the coming weeks, we expect the House to vote on this critical legislation as a stand-alone bill. As you may remember, the SUE Act already passed the House as part of the Laken Riley Act earlier this year. I hope to see this legislation pass expeditiously and receive Senate action.
Weaponization Symposium
