Lost in the incredibly expensive fight over how many billions of dollars the federal government can waste is any number of more modest billssome of which wouldn't add to our nation's debt and would help protect Americans from that very expensive government. Consider the PRESS Actofficially the Protect Reporters From Exploitative State Spying Act. The PRESS Act is intended to stop the federal government from attempting to force journalists to divulge the identities of anonymous sources, like government whistleblowers. There are exceptions if the government can show that disclosing the identity of the source is necessary to identify a terrorist or to prevent violent crime or crime against a child.
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