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H.R. 3881: Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act

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H.R. 3881: Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act

113th Congress · introduced 2014-01-15 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2014-01-15 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act

Plain summary

Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligene Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to include the House Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations (in addition to the intelligence and judiciary committees) as congressional committees to which the Attorney General is required to report under FISA with respect to physical searches, pen register and trap and trace devices, access to certain business records for intelligence purposes, semiannual FISA reviews, and targeting of persons outside the United States to obtain intelligence information.

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Official text

Expansion of National Security Agency Oversight Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large] · 3 cosponsors

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Peter Welch (D-VT)

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Words on this page, explained (1)
Securities
Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr3881 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113