In response to the passage of repeated short-term authorizations to Section 702 of FISA in which House Republican Leadership squandered the opportunity to negotiate necessary, significant bipartisan guardrails to protect Americans’ civil liberties, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) adopted an official position to oppose extensions of any length to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) absent significant reforms.
Congress passed two short-term extensions of FISA 702 with the aim of creating time and space for serious negotiations, yet Republican leadership still refuses to commit to votes to codify civil-liberties protections, like ending backdoor searches and data broker loopholes. As the Trump Administration continues to show its stunning disregard for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, a super-majority of the CPC voted to oppose further short-term extensions to the surveillance law and instead support popular, bipartisan and significant reforms to FISA 702.
