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Congressman Matt Gaetz Speaks on House Floor in Opposition to FY2024 NDAA Conference Report​


Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about his opposition to the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report, which he voted against this morning.

Video of Rep. Gaetz speaking on the House Floor can be found HERE and below.


TRANSCRIPT

REP. MATT GAETZ: I regret that I rise in opposition to this NDAA because there is a great deal of good in it. But only in Washington must we bring a bill to the floor so that we are able to militarily confront China while at the same time embracing the policies that make the United States more like China. There is no desire on the part of our great armed services chairman and even the Democrats we worked with to have an extension of spying authorities put in this bill when we have already seen those authorities just totally abused. 278,000 violations of the existing law. As the FBI has queried information regarding Americans.

When the Obama-appointed inspector general was reviewing whether or not the administration was complying with existing law, they found we were breaking the law 38 times an hour to extend the authorities for spying that were being violated so people at the FBI can do queries on their neighbors, their co-workers, their ex-lovers. That doesn’t belong in the NDAA and maybe we would be able to stomach if the underlying bill looked a little more like the product we sent out of the House of Representatives.

With this NDAA Conference Report you almost feel like a parent who sent a child off to summer camp and they’ve come back a monster. That’s what we’ve done. This bill came back in far worse shape. We had concerns over social justice warriors that were making salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars at DoD. So, we put a cap on that, at three times what a private or an airman would make and we claim that is still in the bill but the Senate said so long as that social justice warrior is assigned any other responsibility, they are able to plow through that cap and waste taxpayer money that doesn’t enhance our lethality, or capability or survivability.

We have legislation to eliminate the Chief Diversity Officer at DoD because that was the fountainhead of woke bad ideas and the house receded on that position. Many of our colleagues were concerned that when you look at our military bases or installations, they were flying flags that weren’t the Americans Flag. The LGBTQ+ flag, the Black Lives Matter flag, whatever that flag is with the pink and black triangle in it. And that desire we had to fly the American flag, flags of our service branches that was surrendered by the House of Representatives to the Senate.

We wanted a parents’ bill of rights in DoD schools so you wouldn’t get the strange material that goes into radical and race and gender ideology. That abandoned by the House of Representatives. We also expressed a great deal of concern over the censorship that the DoD was funding through its alliances. We put in our bill a prohibition of marketing through that network that has engaged in broad scale censorship and unfortunately that was replaced with a report. So instead of stopping the money flowing to censorship through the DoD, we asked to just be informed about it as its happening, even though we already know it’s happening. That’s why we know it’s happening.

This bill is insufficient to deal with the structural challenges that we have at the Department of Defense where they have veered substantially left. There is good in the bill, but it does not deserve an affirmative vote this just absolutely unnecessary and uncalled extension of spying authorities that we already know has been used.

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In the last round of debate House Republicans were criticized for providing a pay for our plan to support Israel out of the IRS. And the theory is it’s totally unrelated. But a pay-for for the things we are doing, that is always related. It is only in Washington, certainly not in many of our state capitols, where you can have an ambition to fund something and then not identify the offset that would naturally allow you to engage in that. And the only real substantive debate I’ve heard in favor of this bill is that it does good pay increases for our service members and undeniably that has universal agreement within this body. But I think about the 8,600 service members who were forced to separate from our military because of an ill-conceived, now withdrawn vaccination requirement. And we were told over and over again that there would be back pay and reparations and restoration of rank for those people who were improperly told that they could not express their patriotism through military service because they didn’t want to take an experimental vaccine.

That is totally absent in this legislation. So, in communities like mine that are military-heavy, the 5% pay increase will be very welcome, but everyone in our military families knows someone who now is not able to have their job, who's impacted their spouses, to their marriages, to their children because of the mandate. And we ought to have really taken care of those great folks. We didn’t in this bill.

And I am all about compromise. But to me, compromise ought to reflect the work of the House and the Senate and then linking those matters up. Neither the House nor the Senate version of this bill dealt with extending spying authorities, as my colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr. Perry, said. That was something that was added in. So that’s the process, not that we’re unable to compromise on that which we present different views on. It’s when a totally new issue just parachutes in and drops on what would otherwise be legislation that we would want to agree to.



https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1735318523793027564​

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Congress Again Renews FBI’s Warrantless Spying Power Over Americans. Vivek’s Revealing Clash w/ CNN on 1/6. Natasha Bertrand’s CIA Servitude. Dems Pretend to Chide Israel | SYSTEM UPDATE #199
https://rumble.com/v41anft-system-update-show-199.html
{Glenn Greenwald | 14 December 2023}

 
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CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #199:

How Congress Just Destroyed Your Privacy Rights
https://rumble.com/v41gzr1-how-congress-just-destroyed-your-privacy-rights.html
{Glenn Greenwald | 15 December 2023}


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Brian4Liberty said:
Traitors! Congress Votes To EXTEND Unconstitutional Spying On Americans!

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WisconsinLiberty said:
Congress’ ‘Gift’ to America This Christmas

Ron Paul
December 18, 2023


Just before leaving town for Christmas break, the US House gave Americans a last-minute holiday gift: a nearly trillion dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interests and the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, the rest of America got nothing but coal in its stockings.

With Constitutionalists like Rep. Thomas Massie on the House Rules Committee, Speaker Johnson made the unusual move of bringing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) under suspension of the rules, which bypasses the Rules Committee but requires two-thirds of the House to pass the bill.

Considering that Speaker Johnson tossed into the “must-pass” bill yet another extension of Section702 of the FISA Act, it’s unsurprising that he wanted to rush the bill through without the possibility of amendment. Section 702 allows the government to intercept and retain without a warrant the communications of any American who is in contact with a non-US citizen. It is clearly a violation of the Fourth Amendment which is supposed to protect Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Section 702 was “legalized” under President George W. Bush during the “War on Terror” after it was revealed that Bush was using the National Security Agency to illegally spy on Americans. We were told at the time that government must be granted these authorities because we were under threat from terrorists. It would just be a temporary measure, we were promised, and then the authority would expire. That was fifteen years ago and here we are re-authorizing the government to continue to violate our liberties.

As with the rest of the violations of our civil liberties after 9/11, like the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, the federal government soon turned its terrorism-fighting tools inward, targeting Americans rather than foreigners who we were told wanted to harm Americans. That’s why the FBI’s so-called domestic terrorism watchlist continues to expand to include Christians and those skeptical of big government.

So rather than debating whether we want a government more like East Germany than the one our Founders imagined, Section 702 was tossed into the military spending bill.

The NDAA also contained a $600 million gift to the corrupt government of Ukraine. As opposition to further spending on Ukraine’s failed war with Russia increases in the House, Republican leadership decided to add what may be the last parting gift to the military-industrial complex. As with most foreign assistance, however, Ukraine will likely see very little of this money. Most of it will be laundered through the military contractors and lobbyists who line every corner of the Beltway.

The NDAA also pushes us further toward confrontation with China, authorizing more than $100 million to train Taiwan’s military and a further nine billion dollars to continue sending US military ships to harass China in its backyard.

I believe Speaker Johnson is intelligent, with a bright future in House leadership. He has inherited a broken system and a legislative body that operates without any guiding principles. I sincerely hope he will begin to listen to the increasing voices in the House who are questioning the warfare-welfare state. We are more than 33 trillion dollars in debt, with interest payments on that debt dwarfing all other government spending. A crash is coming. There is no time for more “business as usual.”
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