House delays plans on surveillance program reauthorization vote - Roll Call
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The House on Wednesday shelved plans to hold floor votes this week on a bill to reauthorize the Section 702 surveillance authority.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/12214925

The good news is that the secret session of Congress didn’t happen so they didn’t sneak something through behind closed doors. Thanks to everybody who took action! and it now looks like the House won’t be voting on Section 702 this week.

Elisabeth Goitein of Brennan Center has an excellent Xitter thread here describing it as HPSCI (House Intelligence Committee) leaders (who oppose reforms and want to broaden surveillance) forcing Speaker Johnson to cancel the floor vote. She suggests they’ll try to get weak language into the continuing resolution, and if that happens we should be ready to make some noise.

Then again, as @dell@journa.host of Wired suggests on Bluesky, if they don’t take action by April 19, the FISC (FISA Court) can just extend certifications for a year, so that’s also a way they can delay reforms. We may also need to make some noise to demand a vote.

So stay tuned!!!