Tomorrow morning the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin marking up FISA reform legislation. What we don't yet know is what changes they will make to the bill passed out of the Senate Intelligence Committee. That's why we have to keep calling and make sure all of the Judiciary Committee members know that retroactive immunity needs to be stripped from the bill.
So far, four senators have said they will oppose retroactive immunity. We need six more to ensure that we'll win this fight. Coincidentally, there are still six Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee that have not said how they will vote on retroactive immunity (Schumer, Feinstein, Durbin, Kohl, Whitehouse, and Leahy). Arlen Specter has also expressed his concern over retroactive immunity, but has not yet made clear where he stands.
The good news is that we've just launched a new function in the Citizen Generated Whip Count that makes calling the Senate much, much easier for you.
We've built a direct calling feature on our Whip Count tool that connects users to Senate offices over the internet.
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