Legislation to ban the government from reading old emails without a warrant hit a snag Thursday, as Senate Republicans split over an FBI request for expanded powers to subpoena information about email traffic.

That split prompted Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to call off consideration of his bill.

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