Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I appreciate the thoughtful words that have been presented by my friend and colleague, the distinguished Senator from Virginia, who also chairs the Senate's intelligence oversight committee. It is unfortunate that he is unwilling to have these amendments even considered--especially unfortunate because it appears to be predicated on the risk of FISA 702 lapsing. Unless we do something on this in the meantime, it is going to lapse at least for a period of time. As I made clear a moment ago, the language we adopted in 2018 and that we reupped in December of last year, 2023, makes abundantly clear that FISA 702 collection can continue unabated through April of 2025 based on the recertification by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court I believe on April 11. That is allowed to continue for 1 year following the certification as long as FISA 702 was still intact and not expired as of the moment of the certification, which it was.…”