Whereas section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1881a ) was added by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 ( Public Law 110–261 ; 122 Stat. 2438); Whereas the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 extended section 702 authorities until December 31, 2023; Whereas absent congressional action, section 702 authorities will sunset at the end of the year; Whereas the Intelligence Community has not been forthright about its use of section 702 authorities over the 15 years that section 702 has been authorized; Whereas both Houses of Congress have repeatedly sought to exercise their constitutional, article I authority to conduct oversight of executive branch use of section 702 authorities, and the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has repeatedly and over multiple Congresses, failed to produce lawfully requested documents and witnesses to both Houses of Congress; Whereas what information Congress has related to section 702 authorities is often obtained from news reports, whistleblower materials, and even when produced is often heavily redacted; Whereas what data Congress have on section 702 practice are often incomplete, in part due to the Department of Justice itself failing for 21 months to comply with the plain language of section 112 of the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017, mandating that the agency keep a count of its section 702 queries of United States person data, until two Federal courts held that they were required to do so; Whereas this Congress is aware of multiple abuses of the section 702 data collection process through released court decisions and aggregated data, which in itself is an adequate basis to sunset the program; Whereas the National Security Agency acquires more than 250,000,000 internet communications every year pursuant to section 702