drawn. there two different private sector models. the model that has been 2g endod by the president and the subject of congress said telephone companies will continue to keep the meta data as their own business records and they will be approved fromyl7 obtaining t from the telephone companies. there was an alternative proposed that it s important to understand what the program was essentially was with them inquiries of it based on reasonable suspicion that they were associated with terrorism. what they are moving towards now is making that query of the telephone companies. the intermediate model was let s give the bulk meta data to a third party who would hold it and have the government have the ability to sending the queries. i don t think there was any substantial support for that both because it creates a new security program. you know how it held with somebody else and it didn t seem to provide substantial privacy protections. let s open it up now for questions from
for all that each of you continues to do. [ applause ] the house rules committee is coming together tonight to meet to consider two bills. one to restrict the environmental protection agency from attempting to define which waters that regulate under the clean water act, and the second bill would condemn president obama for not giving congress advance notice of the prisoner swap to release bowe bergdahl back in may. pete sessions is the chair of this committee. you re watching live coverage here on the c-span3.wú8lyç the rules committee coming together tonight, 5:00 eastern time, to work on rules for debate for two bills. the house back today after a five-week summer recess. they re working on a number of suspension bills earlier, debating those earlier, including one dealing with higher penalties for i.d. theft and a memorial vote for slaves and freed blacks who fought in the revolutionary war, as well as a bill for tsunami detection programs. votes over in the house a