<p>The GOP-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> voted on Friday to pass a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fisa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)</a> ahead of its expiration deadline next week, but the legislation has one final hurdle to pass before going to the Senate.</p>
<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), one of the members demanding a warrant requirement, objected to the final passage and <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1778833539653423594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought a vote</a> on a motion to reconsider. Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) moved to table it, but a recorded vote was postponed.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), after the House passed the FISA Section 702 reauthorization bill 273-147, objected to its passage and requested a recorded vote on the motion to reconsider. <a href="https://t.co/PXqJOUGuiF">pic.twitter.com/PXqJOUGuiF</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1778840534141772251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The remaining vote is expected to take place next week. Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1778832997417955369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that &#8220;GOP leadership believes the same coalition that passed FISA will vote to table and the bill will go to the Senate.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">OK so here&#39;s the deal.</p>
<p>The House will have to vote to table a motion to reconsider the FISA vote next week.  </p>
<p>The GOP leadership believes the same coalition that passed FISA will vote to table and the bill will go to the Senate.</p>
<p>&mdash; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1778832997417955369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Lawmakers <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 273-147 in favor of extending authorities the U.S. government uses to collect data on non-U.S. citizens abroad and deter threats to the homeland. The legislation, which got bipartisan support, would renew Section 702 for another two years and implement reforms to FISA.</p>
<p>Amendment votes took place earlier in the day, including one for a highly-contentious offering that would add a <a href="https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-introduces-major-legislation-end-warrantless-surveillance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warrant requirement</a> for officials wanting to do U.S. person searches in the information that gets swept up in foreign surveillance under Section 702.</p>
<p>That amendment, offered by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), got support from hardline conservatives and leftist members concerned about privacy, yet it failed to pass due to a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">212-212 tie vote</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;NO WARRANT, NO FISA,&#8221; Luna <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/1778820846221500899" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.</p>
<p>The White House joined with some high-ranking Republicans in opposing the warrant requirement over the view that it would jeopardize national security. Turner <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeTurner/status/1778816761338433989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> it would &#8220;give constitutional rights to Hezbollah and other foreign adversaries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Initially, the FISA bill offered a five-year extension to Section 702, but it got whittled down to two years after it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-blocks-fisa-spy-bill-opponents-demand-warrant-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to advance earlier this week. The shortened window will allow President Joe Biden or whatever administration may succeed him next year the chance to seek a FISA shakeup.</p>
<p>Former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-kill-fisa-as-lawmakers-consider-surveillance-reauthorization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> lawmakers to &#8220;KILL FISA&#8221; and said it was used to spy on his campaign. He was alluding to the FBI&#8217;s controversial efforts to get warrants to snoop on a 2016 campaign aide under a <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4463961-house-unveils-warrantless-surveillance-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">different part of FISA, Section 701</a>, using an unverified dossier.</p>
<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1778076099651444805" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> the FISA bill, called the Reforming Intelligence And Securing America Act, implements reforms that would “actually kill the abuses” directed at Trump’s 2016 campaign. Johnson is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/12/donald-trump-mike-johnson-meeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to meet with Trump later in the day on Friday.</p>
<p>If the FISA legislation makes it out of the House, it will head to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1776255027432095818" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> lawmakers &#8220;must act quickly on a bipartisan basis to ensure these vital national security authorities do not lapse.&#8221;</p>
<p>The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SAP-H.R.-7888-FISA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came out in support</a> of reauthorization but rejected the warrant requirement, saying in a <a href="https://twitter.com/jordainc/status/1778785434430038308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> that the amendment from Biggs would &#8220;eviscerate the value of Section 702.&#8221; Lawmakers and Biden have until April 19 to extend Section 702 before it sunsets.</p>

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