In a dramatic vote held after midnight Friday in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Senate voted 57-42 to block legislation called the USA Freedom Act to reform the National Security Agency.

Then came a 45-54 vote to kill a planned two-month extension of the current law — the Patriot Act. Sixty votes were needed to win on the procedural motions and proceed to voting on the bills.

Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz, the Democrats from Hawaii, voted “yea” on the USA Freedom Act and voted “nay” on the Patriot Act extension.

The U.S. Capitol.

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Here’s what happened next, according to The Hill:

Then, in a dramatic turn on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) repeatedly tried — and was repeatedly blocked — to extend the June 1 deadline of the Patriot Act provisions to June 8, then June 5, followed by June 3 and finally June 2.

All were blocked. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — fresh off his 10.5-hour floor speech opposing the Patriot Act — led the charge against McConnell’s effort, and was joined by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). 

The Patriot Act expires June 1, and it contains the provisions authorizing the NSA surveillance programs. McConnell ordered senators to return to D.C. May 31 from the long Memorial Day break to vote one more time on the matter in a rare Sunday session, but it seems a long shot.

In the meantime, the Obama administration said after the Saturday votes it would move to end bulk data collection — a defeat for the administration, “which has repeatedly warned that failure to renew the surveillance powers would put the nation’s security at risk.”