WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Ted Budd issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) joined Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and several of his Senate Republican colleagues in requesting that United States Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel convene a briefing on the Joint Task Force October 7 to update Congress on efforts to investigate and prosecute terrorist networks such as Hamas.

In light of the recent string of violent incidents and terror attacks with antisemitic motivations, the senators also requested that the task force provide recommendations for legislative action to further strengthen efforts to identify terrorist support networks and monitor potential domes...