Veto Proof Bipartisan House Majority Votes To Curb NSA Surveillance

While you weren't looking, the House voted to curb NSA surveillance powers. "Defying the Obama administration, a bipartisan veto-proof House majority voted to rein in NSA surveillance of Americans late Thursday. The 293-123 vote on the amendment...had majority support in both parties, although a number of leaders in both parties and chairmen opposed it....The amendment would prohibit the National Security Agency and the CIA from placing surveillance backdoors on commercial tech products and prohibit warrantless collection of Americans’ online data. Its future in the Senate is unclear, but it’s a sign the House believes a recently passed House bill to roll back the NSA doesn’t go far enough." Steven T. Dennis in Roll Call.