Jay Rockefeller: “He is talking about our bill, the bill I am now talking about. The Rockefeller-Levin bill is the bill the DNI is…”

“He is talking about our bill, the bill I am now talking about. The Rockefeller-Levin bill is the bill the DNI is referring to in his statement. I am not shy about saying that; I am proud of it. The bill he provided to us last evening--that is our bill, not the other one, our bill--is not the Bond bill that was filed 2 days ago. It is our bill. Our bill takes the DNI's preferred bill and modifies it in a limited number of ways to make it stronger without in any way diminishing the fundamental intelligence authorities the DNI needs. Our bill includes a sunset provision of 6 months, the same sunset provision or period that is contained in the Bond bill, I might add, and we are told that the DNI accepted. In fact, he has told us specifically he accepts it. Our modified DNI bill--Director of National Intelligence--would allow our intelligence community to begin the surveillance of terrorist suspects, targets located overseas, immediately upon the signing of the bill, even if those targeted calls enter the United States. In other words, you start immediately in the collection. Why is this? Because the collection is not complete. We are not going in all places we should be, and that is the national requirement because of various warnings that have been issued. So there is no delay--immediate collection--provided there has been a determination by the Attorney General and the DNI that the target is foreign.”