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| https://horn.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=268 | Congresswoman Horn on FISA: “This is not the time to go soft on national security” | 2020-05-28 | 2020 | 2020-05 | Democrat | House | OK | Kendra Horn | H001083 | horn.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. Following a veto threat by the President, House leadershippulledback from passingnational securitylegislation this week,instead sending the billtoconferencewith the Senate.The FISA bill, which hasreceived strongbipartisan support,reauthorizescriticalsurveillance programsunder the USA Freedom Act, a 2015 intelligence reform law. Two months ago, the House passed a strong bipartisan FISA bill with the support of nearly two-thirds of House Republicans. The bill then moved to the Republican Senate which amended the FISA reauthorization to make it more protective of civil liberties and passed it in a 80-16 vote, with the support of 48 of 53 Republicans.Hoursbefore a vote in the House this week, the Presidenttweeted that he would veto the bill and House Republicans abandoned their support for the legislation.Facing the lapse of critical national security programs, the House voted to send the bill to conference for further negotiations with the Senate. This is not the time to go soft on national security, said CongresswomanKendra Horn (OK-5).TheFISA programs at stake arecritical todomesticcounterterrorism investigationsand American security.This bipartisan legislation, which passed the Senate withoverwhelming Republican support,also includesimportant protections for civil liberties.Wecannot throw our national security intojeopardyover the latestconspiracy theory.We must actin the interest of American national security and reauthorize these critical programs. Congresswoman Horn serves asCo-Chair of the Blue Dog Task Force on National Security. In that position, she led a letter to congressional leadership this week calling for a bipartisan investigation intothe actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak and throughout the pandemic. With the recent reversal, the expired FISA surveillance powers for federal law enforcement are at risk of remaining lapsed indefinitely. The three authorities -- a business records provision allowing the collection of tangible things in national security investigations, a roving wiretaps provision and a lone wolf provision -- have been expired since March 15. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |