House Passes Three-Year FISA Section 702 Reauthorization

Analysis
The House vote, corroborated across four independent outlets, compresses the Senate's decision space to near zero before the midnight deadline. Senate passage before lapse is likely: a finished must-pass bill overrides the chamber's demonstrated pattern of missing three consecutive procedural deadlines this month. Civil liberties advocates who failed to secure a warrant requirement in the House retain blocking posture in the Senate, leaving meaningful probability that authorities briefly lapse or that leadership substitutes a short-term patch over the full three-year bill. Senate leaders may instead be holding the final vote deliberately to deploy expiration pressure as leverage against warrant-requirement holdouts rather than facing a genuine blocking coalition.