article_snippet.sent: the National Security Agency's seeks to codify President Barack Obama's proposal to end the NSA's collection of domestic calling records.  
article_snippet.sent: the National Security Agency's would allow the National Security Agency's to request certain records held by the telephone companies under a court order in terrorism investigations.
article_snippet.sent: The authority to collect those records and other related surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act will expire June 1 unless Congress passes a law reauthorizing it. 
article_snippet.sent: a bill that would end the National Security Agency's controversial collection of American phone records would do that, with changes.
article_snippet.sent: It would result in phone companies, not the NSA, collecting so-called 'metadata' on trillions of phone calls.
article_snippet.sent: Government agencies could get access to it by applying to a judge empowered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
article_snippet.sent: The NSA's collection and storage of U.S. 'to and from' landline calling records – times, dates and numbers, but not content of the calls – was the most controversial program among many disclosed by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden.
article_snippet.sent: For years, The NSA The NSA has collected We phone records, yet it cannot point to a single attack that bulk collection in the United States has stopped,' added Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican who was one of the Patriot Act's original authors.