House Delays Vote on Bill to Reauthorize Controversial Spy Powers

The House Rules Committee was scheduled to take up the ‘Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act’ on Feb. 14.
House Delays Vote on Bill to Reauthorize Controversial Spy Powers
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 26, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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The House has pushed off a vote on a measure that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a spy power that’s meant to target noncitizens abroad but has, at times, swept up Americans in the process.

The legislation would make a series of wide reforms to the FISA spying authority, which has come under increasingly heavy scrutiny since it was last reauthorized in 2018. However, the package has drawn blowback from the House Freedom Caucus members, who have called for the bill to include a warrant requirement.

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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