US EditionHouse backs effort to advance measure opening debate on ICE funding and FISA
The measure adds new oversight and penalties but omits a warrant requirement, setting up a difficult Senate fight over surveillance powers.
- The Republican-controlled House passed a three-year reauthorization of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program with added oversight but no warrant requirement in a 235-191 vote, with support from some Democrats.
- The bill mandates monthly civil liberties reviews, criminal penalties for misuse, and expanded congressional access to FISA court proceedings but does not require warrants for surveillance.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed uncertainty about Senate support for the legislation and suggested the possibility of a short-term extension while details are finalized.
- House Republicans linked the surveillance reauthorization to separate legislation banning a central bank digital currency, which faces significant challenges in the Senate.
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House passes FISA renewal in bipartisan vote, putting pressure on Senate before looming deadline
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Congressional Republicans are racing to extend a controversial spying program before it is scheduled to lapse Friday at midnight. House lawmakers voted 235 to 191 in a bipartisan manner to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. The vote split Republicans with more than 20 GOP privacy hawks voting against a three-year extens…
House Approves 3 Years of FISA
The House has signed off on keeping a major surveillance tool in place, voting 235-191 on Wednesday to extend the government's warrantless spying authority under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Section 702, which is set to lapse Thursday without action, permits surveillance of foreign targets overseas but...
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The New York LedgerHouse passes FISA bill as GOP works through other intraparty feuds
House GOP leaders negotiated their way through fierce intraparty opposition and passed on Wednesday one of the three key pieces of legislation on their agenda for the week, but their struggles are far from over.
FISA clears House, with only 1 CT congressperson in favor
After a dramatic few weeks of scrapped votes and tough negotiations, the U.S. House voted Wednesday to extend a controversial surveillance law that most Connecticut lawmakers opposed. When it last came up for a vote in 2024, all five members of Connecticut’s House delegation and one of the state’s two U.S. senators supported a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, commonly referred to as FISA. That changed two year…
House Votes to Extend Surveillance Program After Intense Wrangling
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks with reporters as he emerges from the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on April 29, 2026. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) Francis Chung/POLITICO/APWith help from some Democrats, Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday pushed through an extension of a controversial spy program — paired with some reforms — after weeks of fierce back-and-forth debate within the Republican conference over the surveillance …
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