{"id":21470,"date":"2026-04-17T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-move-forward-on-last-minute-spy-powers-deal-teeing-up-late-night-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:22:17","slug":"republicans-move-forward-on-last-minute-spy-powers-deal-teeing-up-late-night-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-move-forward-on-last-minute-spy-powers-deal-teeing-up-late-night-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans move forward on last-minute spy powers deal, teeing up late-night vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans leaders are moving forward on a last-minute, late-night compromise with GOP rebels to extend the nation&rsquo;s foreign spy powers for five years while adding in warrant language and enhanced criminal penalties for violations. Text of the provision&nbsp;was uploaded at about 10:30 p.m., about seven hours after a scheduled procedural vote&nbsp;and more than a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5835846-fisa-702-spy-powers-deal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans leaders are moving forward on a last-minute, late-night compromise with GOP rebels to extend the nation&rsquo;s foreign spy powers for five years while adding in warrant language and enhanced criminal penalties for violations. Text of the provision&nbsp;was uploaded at about 10:30 p.m., about seven hours after a scheduled procedural vote&nbsp;and more than a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470","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=21470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}