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U.S. lawmakers vote against reining in NSA phone records collection |
July 25, 2013
The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday narrowly rejected an effort to stop the National Security Agency from collecting millions of U.S. residents’ telephone records.
Late in the day, the House rejected a bipartisan amendment, with more than 30 co-sponsors, that would have prohibited the NSA from bulk collection of phone records from U.S. carriers and cut off funding for the phone records collection program as currently designed.
The amendment, considered as part of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, would have allowed the NSA to continue collecting phone records of suspects, but only when relevant to an antiterrorism investigation. The NSA is part of the Defense Department.
House members who supported the amendment voted to “oppose the suspicionless collection of every American’s phone records,” said Representative Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican and chief sponsor of the amendment.
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