WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following news release:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is backing a clean, 18-month extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) following the Department of Justice's (DOJ) commitment to revise its congressional attendance procedures for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review (FISCR) proceedings. In Grassley's view, DOJ's move to amend its procedures fully resolves the concerns Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) raised in November (https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-durbin-call-on-doj-to-amend-restrictions-on-congressional-ov...