U.S. House votes unanimously to end the NSA’s bulk metadata collection

Lawmakers in the US House have unanimously voted to end the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program. Members of Congress were voting on the USA Freedom Act, a bill introduced by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, who also introduced the Patriot Act in 2001. The bill, designed to curb the vast bulk collection of data on US citizens, passed a 32-0 vote across party lines, making it the first surveillance bill to make it to the House floor.