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31 Jan 2014, 4:30 am by David Markus
Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson have not signaled their approval of the list of Georgia judicial nominees even though the slate of six names was part of a compromise deal that the White House struck with them late last year. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 4:21 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 The report—announced by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 7:05 am by David Markus
Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, but they appear to back all six nominees now.The district court nominees are Judge Michael Boggs of the Georgia Court of Appeals, Mark Cohen of Troutman Sanders, Leigh Martin May of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, and Judge Eleanor Ross, a DeKalb County State Court judge. [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 4:17 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
These dueling bills are co-sponsored by Senate Select Intelligence Chair Diane Feinstein and Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss (“Feinstein-Chambliss”), in one case, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy and Rep. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 8:14 am by Raffaela Wakeman
No big surprise here: Republicans Saxby Chambliss and Kelly Ayotte want to add more restrictions to the GTMO transfer policy, since they doesn’t like the Senate Armed Services Committee-approved plan. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 7:08 am by Raffaela Wakeman
On one side, you’ll find the leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 9:59 am by Raffaela Wakeman
At the Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima compares the Leahy-Sensenbrenner bill to a competitor bill, authored by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss, the Chairman and Ranking Member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, respectively. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 6:15 am by David Markus
Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson have, so far, blocked Pryor's nomination, but as part of the deal agreed to waive their objections in return for Carnes' appointment and three nominees of their choosing for the Northern District of Georgia bench. [read post]
27 Sep 2013, 6:22 am by Benjamin Wittes
One was that Chairman Feinstein’s opening statement, in which she gave an overview of the FISA reform bill she and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss are writing, seemed to cover a lot of the ground I had suggested in my written statement. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 11:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
  Thank you, Chairman Feinstein, Vice Chairman Chambliss, and members of the committee for inviting me to present my views on reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).[1] I am a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 2:18 pm by Ritika Singh
Here is the press release from the committee’s website : Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) today announced the committee will hold an open hearing to consider legislative changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to include the NSA call records program, on Thursday, September 26, at 2 p.m. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 9:03 pm by Benjamin Wittes
At the time the matter first leaked, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss, chair and vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, issued a statement saying that “[t]he executive branch’s use of this authority has been briefed extensively to the Senate and House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, and detailed information has been made available to all members of Congress prior to each congressional reauthorization of this law. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 6:23 am by David Markus
The package deal would remove roadblocks thrown up by Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson that have held up the confirmation of Atlanta attorney Jill Pryor, a partner at Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, for the Eleventh U.S. [read post]
23 Aug 2013, 2:18 pm by Mark M. Jaycox
First, the chair and ranking member of the committee, Senators Dianne Feinstein (CA) and Saxby Chambliss (GA), respectively, are stalwart defenders of the NSA and its spying activities. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 11:56 am by Kevin
Saxby Chambliss has] seen in the last several years," reminiscent of "what we saw before 9/11"? [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:29 pm by Benjamin Wittes
On Sunday, Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said of the N.S.A. sweeps: “If we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 9:54 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is more direct about the link between the terror threat and the NSA’s surveillance programs than others; he said on the Sunday talk shows that the communications of concern were caught by those very programs many of his colleagues are trying to shutter. [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 1:26 pm by Wells Bennett
 Senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss—the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, respectively—publicly affirmed the legality and longstanding, programmatic nature of the collection authorized by the leaked FISC order. [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 9:53 am by Ritika Singh
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA): A primary mission of the U.S. intelligence community is to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the United States, and Congress works closely with the executive branch to ensure that the authorities necessary to keep our country safe are in place. [read post]