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The House of Representatives voted to extend a key surveillance program for three years, by a vote of 235 to 191. The measure now heads to the Senate ahead of a Thursday night deadline, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

The vote comes after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struggled for weeks to win over privacy-minded Republicans. GOP defections tanked five-year and 18-month extensions earlier in the month.

Forty-two Democrats supported the bill and 22 Republicans opposed it.

The program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), allows U.S.…