11.06pm BST

We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• Following the surprisingly narrow defeat of an amendment Wednesday to end bulk phone records collection, activity on Capitol Hill to reign in the NSA programs showed new vigor. It was announced that legislation would be introduced in the House to restrict the bulk collection of phone records and in the Senate to shorten the lifespan of the Patriot Act and block bulk records collection.

• House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said her vote against the amendment, sponsored by Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, should not be construed as an opposition to new limits on surveillance. She said a bipartisan group of like-minded congressman was preparing a letter to the White House calling for such limits. House speaker John Boehner said he was glad the Amash amendment was defeated.

• A New York district judge refused an Obama administration request to dismiss an ACLU lawsuit challenging the bulk collection of telephone metadata. The court set a timetable for the case to proceed, with oral arguments to begin, should the case get that far, on 1 November.

• For the record, other active efforts in the courts to limit surveillance: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has brought a lawsuit in California to limit government data collection. Additionally, the NSA and the Obama administration have pledged to work to declassify opinions of the secret surveillance court, known as the Fisa court.