The Senate will again consider S-1197, the National...
The Senate will again consider S-1197, the National Defense Authorization Act, when it resumes Dec. 9, according to the Senate floor schedule. The session will allow Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., to…
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provide updates. Senators tried to peg hundreds of amendments to the bill in November -- more than 500, including a handful pressing the government for more transparency on surveillance and other changes. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., attached her FISA Improvements Act legislation. On Nov. 21, Levin called for passage of the bill this year and complained of being “thwarted” in a battle over amendments. “So over and over again, we got objections to considering amendments based on the accusation that we were not considering enough amendments,” Levin said in a floor speech then (http://1.usa.gov/IwbiqD). “Already we have been blocked in our effort to clear a package of managers’ amendments.”