Congress Spending Bill Demands Details About NSA Spying

U.S. lawmakers are demanding, as part of a spending agreement, that the National Security Agency turn over data about the collection of bulk phone records, including how many Americans had calls intercepted by the agency.

A $1.1 trillion bill unveiled yesterday to fund the federal government through Sept. 30 would require the NSA to provide Congress with unclassified reports detailing how it collects and uses metadata, which refers to phone records, e-mails and other electronic communications.