The House narrowly failed to adopt a warrant amendment to the FISA bill, which reauthorizes a key U.S. spy program considered crucial to national security through 2026.
The House narrowly failed to adopt a warrant amendment to the FISA bill.The House on Friday voted to reauthorize a key U.S. spy program considered crucial to national security through 2026.
Section 702 allows the U.S. government to collect electronic communications of non-Americans located outside the country without a warrant. It came under scrutiny among some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and civil liberties groups because it sometimes results in the collection of data on Americans who are in contact with those surveilled individuals.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on, Nov. 2, 2023.While the FISA reauthorization passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, its path was uncertain earlier this week after hard-line Republicans revolted and tanked a routine procedural vote on the matter.
Changes to the bill that appeared to appease conservative hard-liners were reauthorizing the FISA program for two years instead of five years."I am really grateful at the receptiveness to some of our requests," Gaetz said on Thursday.
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