Axios reports that "[t]he House voted overnight to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for two weeks after a bloc of 20 Republicans derailed a longer-term renewal." The GOP leadership had been pushing for a 5-year renewal. It is not clear from the article whether the 20 Republicans did not vote for it because they were opposed to the breadth of the FISA or didn't believe it went far enough in allowing spying on Americans. You might remember that Section 702 was the section of the FISA that the intelligence agencies used to spy on the Trump campaign. Presumably the two week extension will be so that the intelligence agencies have time to dig up dirt on the politicians that blocked the renewal.
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