"a FISA law that gives our law enforcement officials the tools they need to fight terrorism, without infringing on the fundamental rights of law-abiding Americans. We have always been willing to work with the President to give him the constitutional authority to meet the post-9/11 challenges. All he had to do was tell us what he needed. It wasn't until we read in the New York Times that he was doing things that were contrary to law that we decided we had to do something legislatively. If he had come to us, we would have done anything we could to maintain the framework for a constitutional form of government to help whatever problems there might be."
"...we need to pass new FISA legislation that allows the intelligence community to continue its work and which assures telecom companies they will not be sued for answering the call to help in the hunt for terrorists."
