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   Associated Press  Nov. 18, 2014   
      
   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has blocked a bill to end bulk   
   collection of American phone records by the National Security   
   Agency. The measure was President Barack Obama’s signature   
   proposal to rein in domestic surveillance.   
      
   Tuesday’s vote was largely along party lines, with most   
   Democrats supporting the bill and most Republicans voting to   
   kill it. The Republican-controlled House had previously passed a   
   version of the bill.   
      
   The legislation would have allowed the NSA in terrorism   
   investigations to query the records held by the telephone   
   companies.   
      
   The revelation that the spying agency had been collecting and   
   storing domestic phone records since shortly after the terrorist   
   attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was among the most significant by   
   Edward Snowden, a former agency network administrator who turned   
   over secret NSA documents to journalists.   
      
       
      
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