The House of Representatives is dropping consideration of legislation that would have extended U.S. surveillance tools, the chamber's number two Democrat said on Thursday, after President Donald Trump threatened a veto and his fellow Republicans withdrew their support.
FILE PHOTO: View of the U.S. Capitol Building ahead of a series of votes in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives is dropping consideration of legislation that would have extended U.S. surveillance tools, the chamber’s number two Democrat said on Thursday, after President Donald Trump threatened a veto and his fellow Republicans withdrew their support. “The two-thirds of the Republican Party that voted for this bill in March have indicated they are going to vote against it now,” Representative Steny Hoyer said in a statement on Thursday, after a vote on the measure was unexpectedly postponed late on Wednesday.
“I am told they are doing so at the request of the President. I believe this to be against the security interest of the United States and the safety of the American people,” Hoyer said. The parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have been renewed until December 2023 cover the FISA court’s approval of warrants for business records, allow surveillance without establishing that a subject is acting on behalf of an extremist group, and allow continued eavesdropping on a subject who has changed cellular telephone providers.U.S.
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