{"id":21303,"date":"2026-04-14T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-no-amendments-for-fisa-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:16:38","slug":"johnson-no-amendments-for-fisa-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-no-amendments-for-fisa-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: No amendments for FISA extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he is not willing to add any amendments to a straight extension of a key spy powers law, as he tries to overcome a GOP hard-liner rebellion fueled by privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to be a clean extension,&#8221; Johnson told reporters. &#8220;If we put amendments on it, it jeopardizes its passage. And it&#8217;s far too important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is preparing to push an 18-month extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through the House Rules Committee this afternoon. He doesn&#8217;t yet have the votes to then advance the measure on the floor later this week, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss the talks. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans, including members of leadership, have discussed a backup plan that would be a shorter extension. But they&#8217;re likely only willing to take that step if the current proposal fails on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Some House GOP holdouts privately say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/13\/congress\/caine-letter-fisa-702-reauthorization-00870208\" target=\"_blank\">White House officials and GOP leaders<\/a> are trying to strong-arm them into accepting a clean FISA extension, despite their concerns about American citizens being swept up in government surveillance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he is not willing to add any amendments to a straight extension of a key spy powers law, as he tries to overcome a GOP hard-liner rebellion fueled by privacy concerns. \u201cIt&#8217;s going to be a clean extension,&#8221; Johnson told reporters. &#8220;If we put amendments on it, it jeopardizes its [&hellip;]<\/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-21303","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\/21303","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=21303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}