Nope. This is a different bill; in the article it says: "The bill, which has White House backing, goes further than a version passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives in reducing bulk collection and may be more acceptable to critics who have dismissed other versions as too weak."
The 'too weak' bill is the one that was watered down.
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This is the one that got watered down a lot, right? Which would explain its "wide support", including from the White House.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/22...
Nope. This is a different bill; in the article it says: "The bill, which has White House backing, goes further than a version passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives in reducing bulk collection and may be more acceptable to critics who have dismissed other versions as too weak."
The 'too weak' bill is the one that was watered down.