The 212 House lawmakers who voted in favor of the warrant requirement that failed to pass will have a second chance to stop the bill to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) controversial Section 702 surveillance program, which passed out of the chamber on Friday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was among the 86 Republicans who voted against including the bipartisan warrant mandate amendment in the bill to renew FISA through 2026.
The amendment to end warrantless surveillance failed to pass in a tie vote of 212-212 on the House floor. It would have prohibited “warrantless searches of U.S. person communications in the FISA 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, or known cybersecurity threat signatures.”
The FISA reauthorization bill without the warrant requirement ultimately passed 273-147 on Friday. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. , took to the social media platform X to inform […]
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