By Steven Nelson
Washington Examiner
December 17, 2017
The short timeframe may give individual senators the ability to force a temporary expiration of the law, as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., did in 2015 with a separate and since-revised surveillance law.
If the law lapses, the Trump administration reportedly plans to continue programs under a legal argument that orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last through April 2018.