Honorable Raúl Labrador
United States Representative, Idaho, Republican
Representative Labrador was first elected to the U.S. House in 2010. He serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the Natural Resources Committee. The following is excerpted from a June 12, 2013, statement on the floor of the House of Representatives. During the past week, we have heard about a series of major violations of our civil liberties, including the fact that NSA is collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans. This wholesale snooping on innocent Americans is an unacceptable violation of one of our most basic freedoms — the right to privacy and to be free…