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Agents could not aim this spying program at an American. To reach one, they would first need a court order or a warrant. The bill writes that limit into a new part of the law.

Each month the FBI would hand over its written reasons for every search that used an American's name. A privacy officer at the top spy office would read them. Bad ones would go to a watchdog to judge.

Today an FBI supervisor can sign off on a search for an American's name. The bill would drop supervisors from that list. Only certain FBI lawyers could approve one.

The program picks up messages of foreigners abroad with no warrant for each person. Americans' messages get swept in too. Its end date would move from April 30, 2026 to April 30, 2029.

An FBI worker who breaks the rules for searching Americans' data on purpose would commit a new federal crime. The penalty: a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

Lying about following the search rules, or badly misstating it, would also be a crime. That one is not limited to FBI staff. It carries the same penalty: a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

The court that signs off on spying orders meets behind closed doors. Within 60 days the Attorney General would have to throw out the visit rules set before 2026. New rules would let named lawmakers and staff attend.

Congress's audit arm, the GAO, would study how the government picks who to spy on. Within a year it would tell four committees whether those picks stay limited to foreigners abroad.

These spying powers carry an end date, so Congress has to act again to keep them alive. The bill would push that date out three years, from April 30, 2026 to April 30, 2029.

You bank with a private bank or credit union, not the Federal Reserve. The bill would make that a hard rule. A Federal Reserve bank could not hold your account or sell you financial products.

The Federal Reserve could not create a digital dollar, hand one out through your bank, or use one to steer interest rates. It could not even test or study one. A new name or label would not dodge the ban. But the ban reaches only money the Federal Reserve itself owes and offers to everyone.

The Senate bill would fix wrong faith symbols on the graves of Jewish American troops buried overseas. The House struck every word of it and kept only the bill's number and title. In its place went spying rules and a digital dollar ban.