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Debate over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act section 702 renewal bill with a bipartisan warrant requirement amendment is underway on the House floor on Friday.

The FISA reauthorization bill cleared a procedural hurdle after the rule allowing consideration of the legislation passed on the floor in the morning 213-208.

If it passes, the bill would renew FISA section 702 for 2 years as opposed to the original 5-year period.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, urged a no vote on the warrant requirement amendment, arguing that it would hinder U.S. authorities from collecting intelligence on terrorist groups to prevent attacks in the U.S.

Other members like Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have said the warrant requirement would provide Fourth Amendment protection to Americans.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, also supports the warrant requirement amendment. 

“Massie amounts of Americans’ communications are still swept up in section 702 searches,” Nadler said. 

He noted that a report in 2023 found that U.S. law enforcement abused FISA section 702 more about 278,000 times over a period of sever years.