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The Senate rebuffed privacy concerns to pass a two-year reauthorization of a controversial key surveillance law early Saturday morning just moments after it expired at midnight. Senators, in a bipartisan 60-34 vote, approved the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and sent it to President Joe Biden for his signature, the Associated Press reported. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the president “will swiftly sign the bill.” “In the nick of time, we are reauthorizing FISA right before it expires at midnight,” Senate Majority Leader Ch…

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