Pressure is mounting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back a legislative plan to reform the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program.
With just days left before the week-long Memorial Day recess, McConnell, R-Ky., has yet to decide the Senate’s path forward for a Patriot Act surveillance provision that expires at the end of May. He’s planning to huddle with GOP rank-and-file and could make a decision today, GOP aides told the Washington Examiner.
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