WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following news release:
Ahead of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) expiration date on June 12, senior administration officials are urging Capitol Hill to take immediate action to pass the bipartisan Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act, introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively, in close collaboration with Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner (D-Va.).
The Cotton-Grassley bill reauthorizes FISA for three years, allowing the federal government to continue to collect foreign intelligence information while enacting key changes that ...