If this authority expires, we will substantially degrade US national security and our intelligence officers ability to identify foreign threats in real time. Last Congress, House Republicans delivered critical reforms as we referred to in Section 702. 56, in fact. And this bill builds on that progress by strengthening privacy protections for Americans while ensuring the tool precisely targets foreign persons and only foreign persons who possess a threat to the United States. (00:35–00:43)
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Asserts that House Republicans made 56 critical reforms to Section 702 in the last Congress.
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