Law360, New York (May 31, 2015, 8:13 PM EDT) -- After a brief one-week recess for Memorial Day, both chambers are back in town with a full agenda. The Senate returned to work on Sunday, May 31. Prior to breaking for Memorial Day, the Senate failed to bring to the floor for consideration legislation to extend the surveillance authorities that are expiring on June 1. The House had passed the USA Freedom Act prior to its Memorial Day recess and sent the bill to the Senate. That bill makes a variety of reforms to the existing program. Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and a large bloc of Republican senators, however, oppose the reforms in that bill and proposed a clean renewal of the existing authorities. A motion to proceed to the House bill failed to secure the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, but so did a motion to proceed to a short-term extension of the existing program to permit more time to work on a compromise....