. >> pam: c-n-n''s emily schmidt reports from washington on what has changed.ome in the senate are working to get those laws back on the books. >> the motion is agreed to. >> reporter:it's not often the senate meets on sunday.but there were lawmakers--trying to beat a midnight deadline when key patriot act provisions would expire. in the end--the clock won out. >>we should not have allowed for 4 years this day was coming." >>the senate's failure to act introduces unnecessary risk to our country and to our citizens. >> reporter:bulk data collection ended sunday night --keeping the national security agency telecommunications companies. >> reporter:it's a system that had been in place since president bush signed the patriot act in 2006.attorney general loretta lynch said last week that losing the data collection would be a "serious lapse" in national security. >> reporter:critics say the program has only taken away civil liberties. >>we are not collecting the information of spies, we are not collecting the information of terrorists, we are collecting all americans