House Republicans aren’t too happy with Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan for addressing the contentious issue of government surveillance. Disagreements over how the issue should be handled have threatened to stall progress in fixing the system in a way that does not grant the state more power to spy on Americans without a warrant.
At the heart of the issue is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which enables federal agencies to spy on non-citizens in other countries. However, despite the supposed intention of the provision, it has been abused by federal agencies to also surveil Americans without a warrant, bringing up Constitutional concerns.
The debate centers on two bills coming from the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees. House Speaker Johnson’s plan was to have a showdown on the floor in which both bills would be debated with one of them…
