House Republicans are once again divided over how to move forward, this time on a controversial surveillance tool's renewal.
House Republican lawmakers left a closed-door meeting late on Wednesday afternoon furious at their 19 GOP colleagues who blocked the chamber from advancing a bill to renew a key surveillance tool of the federal government. 'When you have a majority, where members in the majority will not support the rules and the procedures set forth by the majority, you effectively are turning control over to the minority party. And that's what these members are doing,' Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky.
bill itself was 56 reforms, all that stuff. That's good,' another GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital. 'Why they voted against the rule, it wasn't because of the COURT FILING REVEALS One of the 19 Republicans who sunk the bill, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., told reporters, 'Some of us would rather see it expire than see it not reformed properly.' But another GOP lawmaker who is supportive of the bill argued that such an amendment would gut the tool’s purpose. They explained that if a suspected terrorist overseas is communicating with a U.S.
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