A plan to vote on two competing House bills that would reauthorize a powerful surveillance authority ran into trouble Monday evening, with Republicans at odds over proposals that take different paths on privacy protections.

The House discussed the bills to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at a Rules Committee meeting Monday, and Republicans had been aiming for floor votes as early as Tuesday.

But the panel adjourned Monday without acting on the two bills on Section 702, which is set to expire at the end of the year. Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., after a committee recess, announced that they “no longer anticipate further consideration” of the proposals.

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