House shoots down war­rant require­ment for sur­veil­lance search­es in dra­mat­ic tie vote

The House reject­ed a con­tro­ver­sial pro­pos­al to pro­hib­it war­rant­less sur­veil­lance search­es by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, deal­ing a blow to hard-line Repub­li­cans who pushed to have the pro­pos­al includ­ed in the broad­er nation­al sur­veil­lance law that is set to expire next week. 
The amend­ment nar­row­ly failed in a 212–212 vote on Fri­day, falling short of the major­i­ty thresh­old need­ed to include it in the sur­veil­lance law. The vote is a loss for hard-right law­mak­ers who fought to have the amend­ment in the reau­tho­riza­tion of Sec­tion 702 of the For­eign Intel­li­gence Sur­veil­lance Act, threat­en­ing to shoot down the sur­veil­lance law alto­geth­er if it was not includ­ed. 
The nar­row vote came down to the wire on …