If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.
Rand PaulI have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
Rand PaulThe Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
Rand PaulI will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.
Rand Paul