After a group of hard-line Republicans helped tank a procedural rule to move forward with reauthorizing a key surveillance law, GOP leaders are now scrambling to craft a solution just nine days before the current security measures expire. 

The House adjourned on Wednesday after canceling evening votes due to intraparty dissension among GOP lawmakers over proposed reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Lawmakers met in a closed-door meeting that evening, the second such gathering of the day, to plot a path forward, an effort that concluded without a clear path forward. 

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