1. United States
2. Hawaii
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Vote no on the Section 702 reauthorization. This surveillance authority allows the FBI to search Americans' data without a warrant, and the current proposal does nothing to fix that fundamental violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. The FBI has repeatedly abused Section 702 to conduct warrantless searches on Americans' communications. Monthly reports and expanded criminal penalties are meaningless without a warrant requirement. These so-called guardrails are window dressing designed to pass a bill that privacy advocates in both parties have already rejected multiple times this month. The fact that GOP leaders had to hold the procedural vote open for two hours to flip holdouts shows how unpopular this measure is even within your own caucus. Attaching an unrelated central bank digital currency bill to force passage is legislative gamesmanship, not good policy. I expect you to stand with Americans' constitutional rights and vote no on final passage. If Section 702 is truly vital to national security, then intelligence agencies should be willing to get a warrant before searching Americans' data. That's not a radical demand. It's the Constitution.