House GOP Leaders Unveil New Spy Powers Plan, Seek Party Unity

House Republicans unveiled their latest plan to extend a US spy powers tool after a week of rebellion from privacy hawks forced leadership to settle for a 10-day extension as they worked through negotiations.

The new plan, dropped Thursday, would extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by three years and seeks to strengthen civil liberties guardrails, but falls short of requiring warrants to search the information—the overarching demand from privacy hawks.