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Narrow Defeat: Amash Amendment to Block NSA Surveillance Fails -- News from Antiwar.com

Narrow Defeat: Amash Amendment to Block NSA Surveillance Fails -- News from Antiwar.com
 The amendment failed, unfortunately, but the 205-217 vote showed that many in the House were willing to buck party leadership in favor of the American public’s demands to see the NSA powers curbed.

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