Posted on 05/28/2020 1:15:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The House voted Thursday to request a conference with the Senate over a bill to reauthorize three intelligence programs after it failed twice this week to vote on the legislation.
The 282-122 vote allows negotiations between the House and Senate to begin as Congress tries to reach a deal on legislation to reauthorize three lapsed surveillance programs and make some changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, Court.
The Senate will also have to vote to formally launch a conference committee. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) talked on Thursday morning about the plan to go to conference to work out the differences.
“The Leaders spoke this morning. Going to a conference committee is regular order when the two chambers disagree,” a spokesman for McConnell told The Hill.
Establishing a conference committee would allow leadership and key members space to try to hash out an agreement on how to handle the intelligence programs in the face of insurmountable opposition from Republicans and progressives that scuttled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) plan to try to send a Senate-passed bill to President Trump’s desk.
“It will be our intention to go to conference in order to ensure that all of the views of all Members of our Caucus are represented in the final product,” Pelosi wrote in a “Dear Colleague” letter on Thursday, laying out her backup plan.
Democratic leadership has largely pinned the failure to secure passage of the reauthorization bill on Trump, who on Tuesday urged Republican lawmakers to vote against it because of alleged abuse of FISA by the Obama administration to spy on his 2016 campaign.
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Doesn’t FISA sunset some time soon if not renewed? I prefer it to just go away.
The Stupid Party is again working for Pelosi.
Kill it. It’s continued existence has been proven to be undeserved and destructive to our liberties and rights.
The FBI defrauded the FISA court, nominally under the juristiction of Justice Roberts. Maybe that would light a fire under him to punish the people who defrauded his court.
Shatter it into 1000 shards that blow away in the wind. Then move on to more DOJ, FBI, Intelligence Community swamp draining.
Kill It.
I thought it expired a month or 2 ago.
Unless it specifically forbids use against native (excluding foreign-born) American citizens and is directly linked to evidence of a planned or committed terror attack, let it die...
My limited knowledge of the former Constitution does not recall any place in it where FISA is allowed...
Thank you.
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