Washington – This morning, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) spoke about how the FISA bill that the House is scheduled to vote on later today would undermine America’s national security. Watch the video here, and see the transcript below:

REP. LIZ CHENEY: “I think it’s also really important to mention that one of the first items on which they are planning to use this proxy vote is an item that deals directly with the national security of this nation. Now, I’m hopeful – the Leader and the Whip have asked that they pull that FISA vote. FISA is a crucially important set of authorities and it’s a set of authorities that was abused. We have to make sure that we deal with the abuse and that we address the abuse, but we should not push through a bill which, in my view, would fundamentally weaken our ability to keep the nation safe because of the amendments that have been added to that bill, and we shouldn’t do that with proxy vote.

“Imagine that – you’ve got millions of Americans across this country who will not be represented because their members have decided to use a proxy, and we’re going to pass a bill that’s going to fundamentally harm the security of the nation, if the Democrats continue down that path. Now, if that’s not an abuse of their Constitutional authority and power, I can’t imagine what is. So, I urge the Democrats to pull that bill, and I also urge them to rescind this rule that allows proxy voting. There are ways that we can work together, as I said, many of us have been public about wanting to do that. This is not a time for partisanship. It’s not a time to try to take partisan advantage of a crisis.”