Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to have the House vote on FISA Section 702 this week. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images and Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Davidson's measure, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, would instead be getting a separate vote on the House floor.
"This time it's going to be its own bill, separately to FISA," Scalise said. "So that one's gonna go separately."
"We wanted to get this before the membership, before the expiration of FISA and get it over to the Senate," he added.
It is not immediately clear when that measure would get a vote, but its decoupling from the FISA renewal bill is likely to boost the latter legislation’s odds of passing in the Senate. At the same time, it is a blow to privacy hawks who were hoping to use the renewal process to put more distance between the federal government and Americans' data.
In his X post Monday, Davidson suggested House GOP leadership was infringing on Americans’ civil liberties with the move. Fox News Digital reached out to his office for further comment.
James Czerniawski, a tech policy expert for the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, argued of the decision, "Taking the databroker loophole and separating it from the FISA all but ensures it dies in the Senate."
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Rep. Warren Davidson, pictured here, criticized House GOP leaders' decision to decouple his bill from the FISA Section 702 renewal measure.
However, defenders of the surveillance tool, including the intelligence community and its allies, said it is critical to prevent another 9/11-style terror attack.
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Disagreements over warrant requirements have continued to drive a wedge between national security hawks and an unusual coalition of hardliners on the left and right who argue the federal government has abused its access to private citizens’ data.
Davidson’s bill is also backed by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, as well as House Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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