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FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Resource Page

Sarah Tate Chambers, Matthew Kahn, Chinmayi Sharma
Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 1:30 PM

Last month, Congress extended the Dec. 31 deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act until Jan. 19. With 10 days to go and an expected flurry of legislative activity before a final bill passes and is signed, Lawfare will be collating relevant documents, including draft bills and amendments, on this resource page.

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Last month, Congress extended the Dec. 31 deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act until Jan. 19. With 10 days to go and an expected flurry of legislative activity before a final bill passes and is signed, Lawfare will be collating relevant documents, including draft bills and amendments, on this resource page. This list will not be exhaustive, and if you have any questions, email Matthew Kahn. Stay tuned, folks.



FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act


  • Jan. 5 bill text (Considered as S. 139, Proposed by Rep. Nunes [R.-Calif.], Passed by floor vote on Jan. 11)

Amendments not adopted



Executive Branch Documents



Congressional Statements



This post was last updated at 4:39 p.m. EST on Jan. 18.


Sarah Tate Chambers is a second year law student at the University of South Carolina. She currently works for the Department of Justice's Publications Unit. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Religious Studies.
Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.
Chinmayi Sharma is a Scholar in Residence at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on cybersecurity law and policy.

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