URGENT: Tell Your Senators to Extend the Debate on FISA Reform

Senate leadership has scheduled a cloture vote for Monday afternoon, which would end all debate and possibility of amending the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act, including the “business records” provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

• Section 215 allows the government to have ready access to your personal information held by businesses without a probable cause warrant – whether it is your genetic information held by 23andMe, or your search history held by Google, or anything that your Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa devices happen to overhear you say.
  

Contact your senators by CLICKING HERE to tell them to vote NO on cloture so they can debate and amend the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act.

​Background:

The House bill reauthorizing Section 215 now before the Senate contains some commendable reforms, but it must go further to protect Americans and ensure accountability in the intelligence community.

• Any reauthorization bill must create a more robust program of independent lawyers to evaluate secret warrants and push back against government overreach.
  
  
• The government should have to disclose all potentially exculpatory evidence.
  
  
• Senators should extend the House bill’s civil liberties protections granted to Washington politicians to ordinary Americans.
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Although leadership wants to move forward without debate, Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Ron Wyden have all called for a chance to openly and fully debate the bill. In making this bipartisan call for a short extension to allow time for debate, these senators say that they, and the American people, deserve a chance to improve this bill.