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The Republican congressional leadership didnt even want to bring Michigan Rep. Justin Amashs anti-surveillance amendment up for a vote. The Obama administration certainly didnt want it to pass.
Yet last week, Amash managed to force a debate on the House floor that should have happened more than a decade ago in the aftermath of 9/11. His amendment would have denied funding to the National Security Agencys vast data-mining program.
Amashs opponents hid behind classified information and misguided emotionalism. Have 12 years gone by and our memories faded so badly that we forgot what happened on Sept. 11? asked Rep. Mike Rogers, a fellow Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
We oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our intelligence communitys counterterrorism tools, White House press secretary Jay Carney echoed in a statement.
Justin Amash?s Revolution | The American Conservative
Justin Amash is the real deal when it comes to actually limiting government, unlike pretenders in the Republican Party like Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann. This is the guy to watch.