House Rejects Restricting Spy-Agency Access to Phone Records
This article is for subscribers only.
U.S. lawmakers angry about domestic telephone record-collection lost an effort to curtail funding for the intelligence-gathering tools revealed by fugitive U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden.
On a 205-217 vote, the House today rejected an amendment by Representative Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, that would have limited the National Security Agency’s ability to collect phone records.