On Sunday night, the Senate voted 77-17 to advance the USA Freedom Act. The bill, which already passed the House 338-88, amends the Patriot Act by ending the NSA’s practice of storing U.S. phone records (the date, time, duration and numbers dialed–but not the content or identity of the caller–of all calls) in a database that may be searched during national security investigations. Under the USA Freedom Act, the phone records will remain with the phone companies.