The Senate votes 60 to 28 in favor of passing the bill, while the House followed by passing the bill, 227–183. As The New York Times reports: "Seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government’s ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States. New law gives the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve the international surveillance, rather than the special intelligence court."