The European delegation met with lawmakers including Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Rogers said he hopes to address European concerns while still maintaining the U.S. capacity to conduct surveillance.

Rep. Mike Rogers: “We think we’ve made some progress. We’re starting to highlight some areas where we think we can work together to cover our differences. We are on a world wide web and information and people are flying across that web all at the same time, so they may be in our country in this second and they may be in France or Germany the next very second in their communications, and that’s, I think, the framework that we are all trying to figure out what is the best way forward and how do we do this that still maintains a mutual trust that we’ve developed, really, in the past 70 years.”

The nation’s spying apparatus will remain in the spotlight on Capitol Hill today when top officials including National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander appear before the House Intelligence Committee.