BREAKING: House Passes Section 702 Extension, 273-147

The House passed a bill Friday to reauthorize and provide sweeping reforms of a key U.S. government surveillance tool without including broad restrictions on how the FBI uses this crucial program to search for Americans’ data.

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The bill, approved 273-147, now goes to the Senate where its future is uncertain. The program is set to expire on April 19 unless Congress acts. ...

“The two-year timeframe is a much better landing spot because it gives us two years to see if any of this works rather than kicking it out five years,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Thursday. “They say these reforms are going to work. Well, I guess we’ll find out.”

Ed Morrissey

I don't think this will have any problem getting through the Senate, although it may take longer than the deadline allows. The House will send over the Mayorkas impeachment on Monday, and that is a privileged action that will pre-empt other business, at least for a short while. 

Johnson committed to a separate bill to close a loophole on corporate data, which he''ll produce next week. That one may or may not get far; a similar amendment today failed. 

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