{"id":20315,"date":"2026-03-20T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leaders-punt-controversial-fisa-vote-to-april\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:16:38","slug":"house-gop-leaders-punt-controversial-fisa-vote-to-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leaders-punt-controversial-fisa-vote-to-april\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leaders punt controversial FISA vote to April"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House GOP leaders are punting a reauthorization vote for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that they had hoped to hold next week until mid-April, with a GOP hard-liner revolt over warrantless surveillance threatening to tank the legislation, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter granted anonymity to discuss the conference dynamics.<\/p>\n

GOP leaders are still dealing with a dozen or so Republican members who want reforms to the spy powers extension, as Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to pass a clean, 18-month extension without any changes. President Donald Trump has also asked for the clean extension.<\/p>\n

Johnson and GOP leaders will instead work through the remaining issues over the upcoming two-week recess and try to put the extension on the floor the week of April 14, the people said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and a group of ultraconservatives have warned<\/a> GOP leaders that the reauthorization would fail if Johnson tried to push it through next week. <\/p>\n

Another House Republican told Blue Light News there was “no way” a rule to advance a clean FISA extension would pass next week. <\/p>\n

Johnson can lose only two votes on a rule to advance the measure, and already a handful of GOP hard-liners have told Blue Light News they would oppose it.<\/p>\n

The FISA reauthorization deadline is April 20, and the delay leaves barely any time for the Senate to act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House GOP leaders are punting a reauthorization vote for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that they had hoped to hold next week until mid-April, with a GOP hard-liner revolt over warrantless surveillance threatening to tank the legislation, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter granted anonymity to discuss the conference dynamics. GOP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}