House votes to not limit NSA spying

A bipartisan amendment to a Defense Appropriations bill in the house will be voted on this week.  It would revoke the flimsy legal justification the NSA uses to spy on everyone in the US.

Republican congressman Justin Amash prevailed in securing a vote for his amendment to a crucial funding bill for the Department of Defense that "ends authority for the blanket collection of records under the Patriot Act." The vote could take place as early as Wednesday evening.
"The people have spoken through their representatives," Amash told the Guardian on Tuesday. "This is an opportunity to vote on something that will substantially limit the ability of the NSA to collect their phone records without suspicion."
It will be the first such vote held by Congress on restricting NSA surveillance after the revelations from ex-contractor Edward Snowden, published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, that detailed a fuller picture of the surveillance authorities than officials had publicly disclosed – something blasted in a fiery Tuesday speech by Senator Ron Wyden, a prominent Democratic critic of the surveillance programs.

 I hope they pass it, and that the Senate does too.

UPDATE:   The House defeated the amendment 205 - 217, with most Democrats voting for the amendment (111 - 83) and most Republicans opposed (94 - 134).  I'd be inclined to support any Republican voting for it and inclined to oppose any Democrat who voted against it.