OTR DISPATCH: Group Of Republicans Blocks FISA Bill With Spy Powers Deadline Looming
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From: The Hill
A group of House Republicans on Wednesday tanked a procedural vote to begin debate on a bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers, leaving the chamber scrambling on how to address the important spy tool before it expires next week.
Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in voting against a rule for legislation to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), blocking the measure from advancing 193-228.
The move comes after former President Trump on Wednesday urged Republicans to “KILL FISA” — throwing a wrench in an already contentious debate.
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FIVE YEARS OF WORKING PROFESSIONALLY IN ONLINE PUBLISHING, HERE IS MY ADVICE TO FREELANCE WRITERS
Writers are passionate about their writing, they more than likely want to over deliver, and if you’re good, you know what you’re bringing to the table. The flipside of this though, is that all these things, while good, also represent challenges for editors.
Whether I was working in commentary or news, sports, politics, or entertainment, all those great things I listed also represented some inverse negatives you don’t really understand until you step up from being a writer and into the editor’s chair.
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