Title: USPIS Surveillance Protection Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
USPIS Surveillance Protection Act
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to implement, conduct, or otherwise carry out the Internet Covert Operations Program (commonly referred to as iCOP) operated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service or any other domestic surveillance program with politically motivated targets.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2921 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2921

  To prohibit funds from being used to implement the Internet Covert 
 Operations Program under the United States Postal Inspection Service, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2021

 Mr. Gaetz (for himself, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Buck, Mr. Perry, Mr. Biggs, 
  Mr. Burchett, Mr. Massie, Mr. Steube, Mr. Gosar, and Mrs. Greene of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit funds from being used to implement the Internet Covert 
 Operations Program under the United States Postal Inspection Service, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``USPIS Surveillance Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The United States Postal Service has been operating a 
        clandestine domestic surveillance program of Americans' social 
        media activity known as the Internet Covert Operations Program 
        (iCOP).
            (2) iCOP is part of the United States Postal Inspection 
        Service which is the law enforcement and security component of 
        USPS.
            (3) The USP Inspection Service is operating outside of its 
        USPS jurisdiction when it monitors internet users' sharing of 
        information as its jurisdiction is narrowly defined within 
        postal mail only.
            (4) The iCOP program is a violation of privacy; it 
        encroaches upon the private lives of Americans and seeks to 
        curb constitutional rights of the First Amendment.
            (5) iCOP is not only illegal for operating outside of its 
        stated jurisdiction, but also politically motivated in its 
        target.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING OF PROGRAM.

    No Federal funds (including amounts available in the Postal Service 
Fund established under section 2003 of title 39, United States Code) 
may be used to implement, conduct, or otherwise carry out the Internet 
Covert Operations Program operated by the United States Postal 
Inspection Service or any other domestic surveillance program with 
politically motivated targets.
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