Congress Named FISA Renewal The “Reforming Intel & Securing America Act”; How They Voted

How each senator voted:

YEAs ---60
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lujan (D-NM)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sinema (I-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

NAYs ---34
Baldwin (D-WI)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Booker (D-NJ)
Braun (R-IN)
Brown (D-OH)
Butler (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cramer (R-ND)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Markey (D-MA)
Marshall (R-KS)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Tester (D-MT)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

Abstaining - 6
Capito (R-WV)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Manchin (D-WV)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Vance (R-OH)
Warnock (D-GA)

From Senate.gov

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The bill, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, enacts numerous changes to FISA Section 702, even as it falls short of expectations from privacy hawks.

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Schumer announced on the floor with relief in his voice. “Allowing FISA to expire would have been dangerous. It’s an important part of our national security toolkit and helps law enforcement stop terrorist attacks, drug trafficking and violent extremism,” he said.

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Schumer faced stiff opposition from within his own caucus, including from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who vowed to “do everything in my power to stop it from passing the Senate.”

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“Searches have gone after American protesters, political campaign donors, even people who simply reported crimes to the FBI. The abuses have been extensive and well documented,” Wyden argued to colleagues. He offered an amendment to strike out language added in the House that will expand the types of businesses compelled to comply with government surveillance requests. But Wyden’s effort to strike it failed by a vote of 34 to 58.

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The House-passed bill had strong support from members of the Senate Republican leadership team, including Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Cornyn. McConnell argued on the Senate floor that the House needed to expand the types of electronic communications covered by the law. Cornyn, a member of McConnell’s leadership team, hailed FISA’s expanded surveillance authority “the most important law that most Americans have never heard of” and “an essential tool for our intelligence community to protect the American people against a whole array of threats.”

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GOP leaders clashed with conservatives within their conference, such as Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), who tried to amend the bill and threatened to stretch the debate past Friday’s deadline if they didn’t get a chance to vote on changes.

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“Egregious Fourth Amendment violations against U.S. citizens will increase dramatically if this bill is passed into law,” Lee warned. Paul offered an amendment to bar intelligence and law enforcement agencies from buying Americans’ data from third-party vendors, and a second one to impose strict limitations on surveilling Americans under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Both proposals failed, by votes of 31 to 61 and 11 to 82, respectively.

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Lee offered an amendment to require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to appoint an outside lawyer to argue for the rights of a U.S. person the government wants to surveil secretly. It would have also required government employees appearing before the FISA court to disclose factual evidence that might call into question the accuracy of their statements. It also failed even though it had previously passed the Senate with 77 votes in 2020.

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Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, in a statement said President Joe Biden “will swiftly sign the bill into law, ensuring that our security professionals can continue to rely on Section 702 to detect grave national security threats and use that understanding to protect the United States.” The program technically expired Friday. But the Justice Department has told congressional leaders that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had taken action that would allow the program to continue to operate for up to a year even if it were not reauthorized.

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Quotes from The Hill, Roll Call, WSJ.