Johnson, for his part, accused Democrats of holding critical votes hostage and suggested he would not call the House back to Washington during next week’s pre-scheduled recess to address FISA because ...

Washington — A powerful surveillance authority that the U.S. government uses to spy on foreigners cleared the House on Wednesday, resolving one stalemate that threatened to derail its renewal before ...

Congressional Republicans are racing to extend a controversial spying program before it is scheduled to lapse Friday at midnight. House lawmakers voted 235 to 191 in a bipartisan manner to extend ...

The House passed a bill extending authorization for a contentious foreign spying power for three years, after weeks of GOP disputes initially forced Congress to issue a much shorter extension earlier ...

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The GOP-led Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) deal is facing its first hurdle in the House Rules Committee. As the House Rules Committee takes up FISA, several GOP hardliners have offered ...

Every now and again, depending on how long a life Congress gave it last time, the FISA debate makes the news. Some in Congress want to give it a five-year extension this time around, but naysayers ...

The FISA punt is setting up a chaotic stretch on Capitol Hill, with GOP infighting now threatening to jam up other Republican priorities. After a dramatic collapse on the House floor, GOP leaders have ...

Hill Republican leaders are finding themselves in a never-ending crisis over the fate of a government spy law that has unleashed a bitter, intraparty battle within the House while also threatening to ...

Last month, I had a video interview with a candidate that caught me off guard. It was a second-round interview, and I was tasked with asking some deeper questions and providing some more technical ...

The US Congress has voted to temporarily extend an expiring law that governs how intelligence agencies can gather information from US telecom companies. While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ...