Looming deadline to extend warrantless surveillance powers sparks congressional scramble

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The Hill

Lawmakers staring down an end-of-the-year deadline to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless spy powers are grappling with a dizzying number of options for how to tackle needed reforms as well as a chorus of complaints about how to proceed.

Congress is weighing everything from a Senate bill that would enact significant reforms to a short-term extension that would simply buy leaders more time as they weigh how to contend with Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).