House GOP leaders are aiming for a clean reauthorization of key provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) next week, a vote that could be tricky given demands from conservative Republicans on reforms and on the unrelated SAVE America Act voting bill. Section 702 of FISA, which authorizes surveillance of foreign nationals outside the…
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee over files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that did not land well with Democrats, as Bondi faces a subpoena from the committee. “We were told 24 hours ago, the attorney general…
The top Republican on the House Oversight panel accused Democrats of “theatrics.”
A long-brewing confrontation over Section 702 surveillance authorities comes to a head next week.
Democrats on Wednesday sharply criticized the White House’s latest counter-proposal aimed at ending the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, arguing that it falls short of sufficiently addressing their concerns about the administration’s immigration crackdown. The counterproposal, outlined in a letter by border czar Tom Homan and White House legislative affairs director James Braid, is…
Even the chair of the House Budget Committee was forecasting the symbolic measure would fall flat.
The panel denied the Florida Democrat’s request for a delay.