I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, April 12th.

Here are today's headlines. Well the biggest news out of Capitol Hill today was that the House voted to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The Act is often referred to as FISA and gives the U.S. government the power to gather intelligence on individuals outside the United States.

But as my daily signal colleague Rob Bluey points out, in recent years, government agencies like the FBI

have actually abused FISA to collect information on American citizens.

Conservatives and liberals have raised concerns over FISA and together a group of Republican and Democrat lawmakers

introduced a FISA amendment aimed at stopping the government from using FISA

to spy on Americans. The amendment was proposed by three Republicans

including Representative Andy Biggs as well as three Democrats including

Gerald Nadler. But specifically that amendment would ban warrantless searches of individuals residing within the United States.

But the amendment was not included in the FISA reauthorization today.

126 Republicans and 100 the FISA reauthorization today.

126 Republicans and 147 Democrats voted today to renew FISA without that amendment

protecting Americans from warrantless searches.

The vote on the amendment earlier today was actually tied 212 to 212,

but a tie vote in the house automatically loses.

Representative Andy Biggs, who again was a leading sponsor and advocate for the amendment,

spoke out about its failure earlier today.

He joined Fox across America to discuss what went wrong.

You had a majority of Republicans that voted for a warrant that wanted a warrant and you had almost dead even on the Democrat side who also wanted

to warrant but it was kind of Republicans and kind of we it would have been good we

needed a few more Democrats but you know what we really needed?

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