She said the White House had decided to defer action on three recommendations, including one calling for judgments about the accountability of individual intelligence units for missteps related to prewar assessments of Iraq.
"We remain concerned about potential plans for a large-scale effort to offer parole or to defer action on undocumented aliens in the United States," the senators wrote.
Ms. Snowe said she "demanded Mr. Baruah make a commitment to either withdraw this proposed rule or defer action on this issue until the next administration".
In May the General Assembly of the (Presbyterian Churchh of Scotland voted in Edinburgh to defer action on this issue for two years and to bar church courts, committees, and ministers from commenting about it publicly.
Two weeks ago, in a case called Allen v. United States, No. 01-7310, the government asked the Supreme Court to defer action on a federal death row inmate's appeal until a decision in the Cotton case.
A June 1 letter to legislators urged them to defer action on the bill "until those affected and representatives of the public have had the opportunity to comment more fully".
The Trump administration is citing the same presidential prerogative to make national security decisions that previous presidents used to defer action on the embassy relocation mandated by Congress in 1995.
He would not comment, however, on the F.C.C.'s decision to defer action on other issues involving the new surveillance capabilities, saying he had not yet had an opportunity to review the entire order.
PSINet, which warned investors this month that it might be forced to seek bankruptcy protection, also said it had received notices that it was in default on $68.1 million in equipment leases, but that the equipment owners had agreed to defer action on the defaults.
People will defer action on a tough issue until it is no longer bearable.
"We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress," Leahy said in a Saturday statement.
