An amendment designed to stop the NSA from collecting telephone records of millions of Americans has been narrowly defeated,205 vote to 217 , in the House of Representatives .
The amendment , attached to an annual defense budget bill , was led by Michigan Congressman Justin Amash and seek to defund the NSA ’s collection of telephone book . understandably , impart the penny-pinching vote , the attempt — which only passed the House Rules Committee on Monday — had found favour among congress . Just not enough to lapse .
intelligibly , it shaken the Obama administration , and the resulting discussion on the House floor is the first on the issue since the NSA news first broke , reports Verge . Many speak out , but Rep. Joe Barton ( R - TX ) got it bang on : “ The NSA ’s rendering is that all information is relevant all the time . That is simply wrong . ”
Defenders , manifestly , responded with familiar arguments : that the NSA ’s employment is an indispensable shaft which write American spirit . Rep. Joe Cotton ( R - AR ) even went as far as call the NSA accumulate metadata “ an excel spreadsheet with five column . ” Just , uh , quite important pillar , Joe .
distinctly , while this amendment fail , there ’s a hungriness in at least some of the house to exchange the way the NSA go away about capture and hive away data . It ’s hopefully just a matter of time before some capitalizes on that . [ Roll CallviaVerge ]
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