Democratic leaders are doing anything and everything they can to prevent privacy protections from being added to FISA.

People need to be asking themselves why this is happening. What do Pelosi/Hoyer/Schiff have to gain by defending warrantless surveillance?

A "dear colleagues" from Pelosi this morning mentioned a plan to push the #FISA reauth into conference. That means the House bill passed in March and Senate bill passed this month. That turns Lee-Leahy into a bargaining chip.

I'm told they are trying to make this happen NOW

Multiple sources tell me Rep. Davidson is "literally running" to the House floor to call for a quorum count because Democrats are voting by proxy and the count will raise a Constitutional question Pelosi may not be able to ignore while ramming through FISA

The conference would mean McConnell, Graham, Rubio, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi and maybe a couple others would be deciding the future of FISA mostly behind closed doors. Except for Nadler, everyone mentioned is opposed to the use of search warrants (not sure where Rubio stands)

Republican whip Scalise warned GOP lawmakers about 15 minutes ago that they needed to head to the floor to stop a motion to send FISA to conference.

Members are still voting in groups for distancing

Nadler is going to do the dirty work on the floor. Democratic leaders tanked a privacy amendment this week after 3 days of negotiations w/ Schiff. And Nadler is accusing Republicans of "flip flopping"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?472438-1/house-session&live

Nadler is talking about sending the bill to conference being important to keeping the Lee-Leahy's amicus reforms, but in reality, he is calling to delete Lee-Leahy from the House version of the bill entirely, which lessens the likelihood of it being preserved.

Jordan doing himself no favors by using his time to defend Flynn. He should have just started with the Horowitz report. (29 FISA cases discovered by IG to be full of mistakes & w/o proper paperwork)

Nadler says Jordan supported the bill yesterday before the Rules Committee. Hoyer just brought it up too.

What's funny is a McGovern, a Democrat, runs that committee and announced at the same hearing he would not support it.

Dem leaders trying to pin this all on the GOP and Trump's FISA tweets -- the only thing Pelosi mentioned in her "dear colleagues" this morning --- but the congressional progressive caucus was publicly whipping votes against her at the same time.

Pelosi is claimed she pulled the bill because it wouldn't have survived a veto, but in reality, she probably just couldn't pass it with the GOP and Progressive caucus voting against it.

I'm told Republicans are going to try to kill this upcoming vote using a quorum call, making a Constitutional question out of sending FISA to conference using proxy votes. Warren Davidson is standing by.

Hoyer bringing up all the Democrats & Republicans who voted for the Senate-version of the bill. But he's ignoring that Wyden-Daines would have passed if Senators could vote by proxy... even though, ironically, House Democrats are about to, once again, defend voting by proxy

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