
Congress Ducks FISA Deadline with Last-Minute Punt
After last-minute votes on Thursday, Congress narrowly avoided allowing funding to lapse on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), pushing the deadline on debate to reform the bill's programs into June. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill from the U.S. House that would fund FISA for three years, instead unanimously passing a bill to extend FISA funding for another 45 days. The U.S. House then passed the Senate bill 261-111, sending it to the desk of a supportive President Donald Trump. The funding for FISA Section 702 was scheduled to expire at midnight on Thursday.









