The effort by Republican leadership to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool collapsed on the House floor early Friday, in a late-night vote over privacy protections that left the future of the renewal push in limbo.
Lawmakers were summoned back to the House chamber more than eight hours after floor action had first been scheduled Thursday on a measure that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as lawmakers considered an amendment that would extend the program for five years.
But the House voted 200-220 to reject the amendment to the reauthorization measure, a show of force from privacy advocates in both parties who have pushed for a warrant requirement for when FBI officials search for information on Americans swept up in the program.
