Senate · Roll call 195 · 1st session · May 23, 2015 A vote to end debate on the motion to proceed to S. 1357, a bill extending certain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorities until July 31, 2015.

How each party voted

Party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.

About this vote

Cloture is the Senate's way of ending debate, and it takes three-fifths of the senators, normally 60, rather than a simple majority. S. 1357 is described as a bill to extend authority relating to roving surveillance, access to business records, and individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 until July 31, 2015, and for other purposes. A Yes vote would end debate on the motion.

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Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until July 31, 2015, expiring provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) concerning: (1) FISA court orders approving roving electronic surveillance, (2) requests for FISA court orders that allow the government to require the production of business records and other tangible things for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations, and (3) a revised definition of "agent of a foreign power" that allows surveillance of individual non-U.S.