{"id":140619,"date":"2017-12-20T01:25:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140619"},"modified":"2017-12-20T01:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:25:42","slug":"senators-oppose-surveillance-law-extension-in-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/20\/senators-oppose-surveillance-law-extension-in-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators oppose surveillance law extension in spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_140676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140676\" style=\"width: 606px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mike-Lee-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140676\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mike-Lee-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Lee (Photo by United States Senate - Office of United States Senator Mike Lee, Public Domain)\" width=\"606\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mike-Lee-2.jpg 606w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mike-Lee-2-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Lee (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=15305608\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by United States Senate &#8211; Office of United States Senator Mike Lee, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Two Senate Republicans are warning they&#8217;ll oppose a government spending bill if the measure includes a permanent or long-term extension of a foreign intelligence collection program set to expire at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee say revisions need to be made to the contentious program to ensure the civil liberties of American citizens are properly protected. They&#8217;re in favour of only a temporary extension, which they define as a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The program is known as section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<\/p>\n<p>Paul of Kentucky says \u201cabsolutely I would vote against any spending bill that has permanent reauthorization\u201d of Section 702.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says he&#8217;d be unwilling to vote for a spending bill that continued the program for a year or longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Two Senate Republicans are warning they&#8217;ll oppose a government spending bill if the measure includes a permanent or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":140676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[39819,17375,39818],"class_list":["post-140619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-mike-lee","tag-rand-paul","tag-surveillance-law","mauthors-richard-lardner","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}