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Ron Wyden hopes to include more reforms in a longer-term extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.             <span>Mariam Zuhaib\/AP<\/span>         <br \/><span class=\"story__author\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/helen-huiskes\" class=\"article__author-text article__author-link\">Helen Huiskes<\/a><\/span><br \/>                                                 <span class=\"article__date-value\">April 30, 2026<\/span>                                                 <span class=\"article__time-value\">04:57 PM<\/span>                                             <br \/>The fight over how to reform a key surveillance authority will continue for at least 43 days, after Congress opted Thursday for a short-term extension while it sorts out a host of concerns from lawmakers.<br \/>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to get a chance to have a debate about reform, we can\u2019t do that overnight,\u201d Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told NOTUS of the short-term extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the U.S. to spy on the communications of foreign threats abroad.<br \/>The House <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/congress\/house-votes-fisa-surveillance-democrats-speaker-mike-johnson-privacy-hawks-spy-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>passed a longer-term FISA reauthorization bill<\/u><\/a><\/span> with bipartisan support Wednesday. But lawmakers in all corners of the Capitol have issues with that bill, including whether it adequately protects U.S. citizens\u2019 data from being swept up in federal agents\u2019 searches for foreign threats.<br \/>Senators chafed at an added provision in the House\u2019s bill to regulate cryptocurrency, and were largely on board with a shorter extension to buy more negotiating time. In exchange for his vote, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden finagled a deal to send a bipartisan to the director of national intelligence urging declassification of a court opinion he says described <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/congress\/house-votes-fisa-surveillance-democrats-speaker-mike-johnson-privacy-hawks-spy-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>\u201cmajor compliance issues\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/span> with FISA, as he has been urging for weeks. He had signaled he would not support a short-term authorization without that assurance.<br \/>The House, with some consternation, passed the short-term extension later Thursday afternoon, preventing a lapse in the authority on Friday.<br \/>\u201cThis is not the outcome that any of us would\u2019ve wanted for the 702 program, but here we are,\u201d Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who backed the long-term agreement already passed by the House, said on the floor before the vote. \u201cThis temporary extension will ensure that there is no disruption to the program while we work out our differences on a longer reauthorization.\u201d<br \/>Congress will now have another six weeks to work through a host of reform demands while the U.S. national security apparatus can keep monitoring foreign threats abroad.<br \/>House Democrats, 42 of whom voted for the long-term bill, are eager to go back to the drawing board in hopes of adding more privacy safeguards for U.S. citizens.<br \/>\u201cIn theory, it would be another bite at the apple,\u201d said Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, of the Senate\u2019s short-term patch before it passed. \u201cI\u2019d always hoped that we might get something that was more bipartisan. It was bipartisan in the end, but it would have been nice to have more votes.\u201d<br \/>Himes said a new bipartisan deal could be finalized within a few weeks. But the urgency of the impending deadline and lawmakers\u2019 rush to get out of town for a recess pushed the short-term extension over the finish line.<br \/>\u201cI think I have some colleagues who are already calling their Ubers for the airport,\u201d Himes said.<br \/>Senate Democrats also hope to wrangle more reforms into any long-term reauthorization. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wyden and other senators will get their day on the floor.<br \/>\u201cIn the end, he and others will get, not a lot, but some of the stuff that they want, to get a longer-term deal,\u201d Thune said. \u201cBut to get to a longer-term deal, we\u2019ve got to keep the lights on, and so that\u2019s the goal today.\u201d<br \/>Some Republicans in the House and Senate are also clamoring for further safeguards, which they say would make it harder for Americans\u2019 data to be swept up in FISA searches. Sen. Josh Hawley said he\u2019s skeptical of FISA broadly and welcomed the chance to renegotiate it.<br \/>\u201cI think we need to see more thorough reforms to protect Americans\u2019 own information,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t really like this kick the can down the road thing, which I think we\u2019re going to do again. 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