Proponents

=** Proponents **=

The proponents for the legislation were mainly the people who proposed and the people who passed it. The non-profit organization, Defensive Democracies, spent over 3 million U.S. dollars on advertisement campaigns. These advertisements targeted members of the Senate to influence them to vote for the updated FISA. The senate passed the bill with 72 votes for it and 26 votes against the bill.

The senator of Missouri, Senator Bond Kit, porposed the FISA Amendments of 2008. He viewed the first FISA established in 1978 as successful. He proposed an update for the first FISA in 1978 to modernize to today's standards.

Both presidential nominees of 2008, Senator John McCain from Arizona and Senator Barack Obama from Illinois, supported the legislation.

President Bush signed the bill into a law on July 10, 2008.