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WASHINGTON — The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush's warrantless-surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.

Bush and senior administration officials have said they did not think changes were needed to empower the National Security Agency to eavesdrop without court approval on communications between people in the United States and overseas when terrorism is suspected.

But Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and other critics contend the program skirted a 1978 law that required the government to get approval from a secretive federal court before Americans could be monitored.

"We're getting close with the discussions with the White House, I think, to having the wiretapping issue submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."

A draft bill would require the attorney general to get approval from the FISA court every 45 days to preserve the surveillance program.

The administration has asserted that a post-Sept. 11, 2001, resolution approving the use of military force covered surveillance of some domestic communications.

Specter has said that the president "does not have a blank check," and he has sought to have the administration ask the special court to review the program. After the program was disclosed by The New York Times in December, the White House opposed changing the law. Over time, that position has shifted.