So if I understand you correctly, they voted to extend these (existing) powers short term, and will have another vote later on whether to keep them long term.

The headline seems to imply congress is trying to sneak something by while everyone is distracted, rather than maintaining the status quo temporarily.

There's enough to be concerned with congress without being misleading. Framing everything Congress does as some conspiracy theory only dilutes the response when actually shady things are happening.