Madam Speaker, I want to make two points: One, the bad parts about section 215 and section 505 are not that, under certain circumstances, the FBI or other investigative agencies can get information from libraries. No one is proposing, as Mr. Sensenbrenner said, to say that libraries are totally sacrosanct.

The bad part is that the FBI can get all this private personal information without any proper or adequate judicial review and then can tell them, shut up, do not tell the victim about it, and that gag order also operates without any real judicial review. That is the real issue.

Secondly, the gentleman from Wisconsin is attempting to do something, I think, improper, and that is, he tells us you cannot change the PATRIOT Act. There are good things in this bill, things we need, which is true, but you have got to take it or leave it, because your 3-month extension I will not allow to go through. We will blackmail this House. If you do not pass the bill as is today, if it expires, there will be blood on your hands, because he and his side of the aisle will not allow a 3-month extension. Well, if there is fault, if there is real danger by not extending the PATRIOT Act, it is on that side of the aisle by refusing a 3-month extension so that we can get it right.

This country should not be subjected to that kind of blackmail. The Senate has real questions. Many liberals, many conservatives, have real questions about this bill. It should be worked out, and if it takes an additional 3 months, let it be. But we, this House, should not be told, take it or leave it, because if you do not take it the way it is, we will not permit a 3-month extension; there will be dangers to the Republic. Without a 3-month extension, there will be blood on your hands.

That is not the way to legislate. That is not proper procedure. That is not respectful of the Constitution. It is not respectful of the people of this country. It is not respectful of the Members of this House.