WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to hold a hearing with Trump Administration witnesses as Congress debates the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The request follows a recent Committee hearing on the topic-without any Trump Administration officials present.
In a letter to Grassley, Durbin wrote: "I was glad that you convened a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on January 28th to examine this important surveillance authority. However, to fulfill its oversight an...