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The Rules Committee left the most contentious piece of Section 702, whether or not queries of Americans’ data should require a warrant, to be decided later.
The House has released a bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
‘We’re working toward consensus, but this is a very, very serious matter,’ Mr. Johnson said.
Lawmakers are split on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a broad post-9/11 surveillance authority, in the light of a string of abuses of the apparatus against American citizens.
