The corrected fourth paragraph now reads:
The USA Freedom Act was blocked by the Senate in a 57-42 vote, falling three votes short of the 60-vote threshold required to proceed, while the bid to extend the Patriot Act provisions, proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, also failed to cross that threshold.
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