To strike the prohibition on political appointees being involved in the approval of queries by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

SA 1834. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 7888, to reform the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

On page 3, strike line 16 and all that follows through page
4, line 12, and insert the following:
(b) Requirement for Senior Leadership To Approve Federal
Bureau of Investigation Queries.--Subparagraph (D) of section
702(f)(3), as added by subsection (d) of this section, is
amended by inserting after clause (v) the following:
``(vi) Requirement for senior leadership to approve federal
bureau of investigation queries.--The procedures shall
require that the Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation or the Attorney General be included in the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's prior approval process
under clause (ii).''.
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