Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Need To Pass FISA Reauthorization In The Senate Before Friday’s Deadline

Washington, D.C.- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on need to get the House-passed FISA reauthorization bill through the Senate. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The Senate might be stuck addressing the House's bogus impeachment charges, but that doesn't erase the fact that we have a lot of work to do in the Congress in the coming days.

Before April 19^th, the Senate must come to an agreement on FISA reauthorization. Last night, I filed cloture on the motion to proceed to the House-passed FISA bill, and that vote is set to take place tomorrow.

Democrats and Republicans are going to have to reach an agreement if we want to get FISA reauthorization done before the deadline. Otherwise, this very important tool for ensuring our national security is going to lapse, and that would be unacceptable. The House has not made our jobs any easier with this bogus impeachment trial, but that doesn't let us off the hook to work together quickly to get FISA reauthorization done.

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