WASHINGTON—An effort on March 12 by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority for 45 days to allow time for further negotiations on reforms was blocked by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.).
Lee, who with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) opposed a House-passed FISA extension, asked for unanimous consent to the additional time to offer amendments to a House-passed FISA reauthorization. The amendments would be to protect individual Americans’ civil liberties.
