Reid Will Try to Strip Immunity from FISA

by Andy Barr - 06/20/08 6:37 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday that he will try to get a telecommunications immunity provision stripped when the Senate takes up the FISA rewrite.

“I’m going to try real hard to have a separate vote on immunity,” Reid said on Bloomberg TV. “Probably we can’t take that out of the bill, but I’m going to try.”

A FISA rewrite including immunity passed the House earlier Friday, outraging several House Democrats, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) who called the bill “unacceptable.”

House Democratic leadership supported the bill’s passage.

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