MS. PERINO: Well, look, there's been six months to hash out the differences. Actually, we've been -- there's been a whole year-and-a-half worth of hashing out the differences on this bill. And there was a robust debate, a hardy debate back in August, when we got the bill that we have now. We did not think it was wise to put a six-month sunset on this bill at the time.

Over the next six months the Senate Intelligence Committee passed a bipartisan measure that could -- that we think is supportable. We have one thing that we could -- one part of it that we disagree with in terms of one of the amendments -- I think the Wyden amendment is the one we've identified. But we do believe that the Senate Intelligence bill represents a bipartisan solution to this, and that's what is on the Senate floor. And we believe that the Senate should be able to work through this, and we're hopeful that they'll be able to get it done this week, as he said he wanted to do.

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