(CNN)The House is set to vote Wednesday to reauthorize three national security surveillance authorities following a rare bipartisan agreement struck ahead of a Sunday deadline when the provisions are set to expire.
But the deal, which includes additional privacy protections under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, as well as changes to the FISA court system, has been criticized by both liberals and libertarian-leaning Republicans for not going far enough to address privacy concerns.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, said she will oppose the FISA deal moving through the House.
"It's not real reform," Lofgren said.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat who helped negotiation the agreement, dismissed the criticism from Lofgren, charging that her assertion was "ridiculous."
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"It is very substantial reform," Nadler said. "It greatly increases civil liberties protections. Not as much as I would want or, apparently, as much as she would want, but it's what we could get. ... This bill substantially improves civil liberties, which is what Democrats should want and it does so without decreasing our intelligence capabilities to protect us."
Trump tells House GOP and Barr to strike a deal on FISA reforms
The FISA deal was reached on Tuesday following negotiations between Democrats and Republicans who have been at war over the Russia investigation and President Donald Trump's impeachment: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic chairman Adam Schiff and Nadler on one side, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Reps. Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and Doug Collins on the other.
Among those participating in the talks was Attorney General William Barr, who met several times with Republican lawmakers during the negotiations.
While the FISA reauthorization is expected to easily pass the House, its fate in the Senate is still murky. The Senate is scheduled to leave Washington on Thursday for a week-long recess, and it's unclear if there will be an agreement to fast-track the legislation to passage — a maneuver that any single senator can scuttle.
Lofgren and other liberal opponents of the agreement were unsatisfied with the additional protections that were included in the reauthorization of the surveillance programs under Section 215 of the law dealing with business records, which allows the FBI to obtain tangible things in national security investigations.
The reauthorization includes a ban on the collection of GPS and cell phone site location data under Section 215, as well as a five-year limitation for the government to retain most of the materials it collects under the authorities. And the bill requires the government to notify individuals if it plans to use information collected under Section 215 against them.
The measure also formally ends the National Security Agency's bulk phone collection data program that was stopped last year.
Lofgren and Nadler previously clashed over the FISA bill, as she proposed amendments when the Judiciary Committee was set to mark up the measure last month that prompted Nadler to scrap the markup.
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, another FISA critic, said the House's protections simply don't go far enough, failing to stop the government from "digitally tracking Americans through their web browsing and internet search history without a warrant."
On the Republican side, the agreement was reached by some of Trump's top allies, who have hammered the Justice Department and the FBI for the Russia investigation and the FISA warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Justice Department inspector general issued a scathing report criticizing the warrants on Page, and Trump and Republicans demanded changes to the FISA court as part of the reauthorization, even though the expiring provisions deal with other authorities.
The bill includes several changes to the FISA court process that Jordan touted on Tuesday, including requiring the attorney general to sign off on FISA applications dealing with elected officials and federal candidates and allowing independent monitors to review FISA applications.
The bill also makes it a crime to lie to the FISA court and allows the House and Senate Intelligence Committee to review FISA applications and materials.
But Republican opponents of FISA blasted the bill as not going far enough after it was released on Tuesday.
"The 'Deal' on FISA is weak sauce diluted & made impotent by A.G. Barr," tweeted Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican. "None of the reforms prevent secret FISA court from abusing the rights of Americans. None of the reforms prevent a President of either party from a politically motivated investigation."
Rep. Thomas Massie, another Kentucky Republican and vocal FISA critic, charged that the bill " won't fix the provisions that allowed the unconstitutional spying" on the President.
And GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah urged Trump to veto the legislation.
"The House FISA deal doesn't fix what's wrong with FISA," Lee tweeted. "I will do everything I can to oppose it in the Senate. If it passes, @realDonaldTrump should veto it."
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