Honorable Richard Burr
United States Senator, North Carolina, Republican
Senator Burr was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005. He chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence and sits on the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, and Pensions Committee. The following is from the June 2, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015. The fact is that [Section] 215 [of the USA PATRIOT Act] is a very effective program. My colleagues are right. It was not a public program until Edward Snowden, a traitor to the United States, published a…
