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Rh sheer deference to treatment of classified information and sheer deference to self-interest. that we let the DOJ and the FBI, whatever you may think of them, have a voice in this argument.

And I will yield back.

THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. The question is on the amendment pursuant to --

MS. SPEIER: Wait.

THE CHAIRMAN: I was going to move the previous question on Mr. Schiff‘s amendment.

MS. SPEIER: Well, I would like to speak on it as well.

THE CHAIRMAN: The gentlelady is recognized.

MS. SPEIER: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Colleagues, I truly believe that this is a step too far. And I would suggest to you that, as you move toward with the disclosure of all this, you will not be sufficiently feeding the beast, and before long there will be a demand for the FISA application to be made public. And this is a slippery slope I don't think any of us want to see happen to our Intelligence Community.

And I truly believe -- and I would like to second Mr. Himes and our ranking member -- how irresponsible it is for us to vote to make public something that we have not even viewed ourselves. And we are all going to have egg on our face.

Why not do what we do in committee all the time -- haul these bureaucrats in, have them speak to us, ask them questions, review the FISA application, and then we can look at those facts as we see them, and then, if we are so inclined, release these documents?

But, I mean, all of us, as members, have, you know, little hoops in our