House Republicans blast 'cry wolf' conservatives who tanked FISA renewal bill

House Republicans are once again divided over how to move forward, this time on a controversial surveillance tool's renewal.

It comes after a normally sleepy procedural vote, known as a rule vote, on a bill to reform and renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed 193 to 228 Wednesday afternoon — the seventh time a rule vote failed this Congress. Prior to that, a rule vote had not failed in two decades. Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

"Here's what frustrates me — is that the same members who are taking down this rule are vociferously advocating for reforming FISA. There are 56 major reforms of FISA 702 that are embedded in the base bill. I understand they don't think those 56 reforms go far enough...But by taking down the rule and by making it impossible to pass this reform base bill, they're gonna get nothing," Barr said. Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com

Conservative privacy hawks who tanked the bill were angry over how it was handled, including the exclusion of an amendment mandating warrants for the purchase of U.S. citizens’ data from third-party data brokers.