Congress passed a restructured national security bill on Tuesday that brought back many of the powers enacted after the 9/11 attacks but did not revive the hotly-contested bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency.

In a 67-32 vote, the Senate passed the bill and sent it on to President Barack Obama.

"This legislation will strengthen civil liberty safeguards and provide greater public confidence in these programs," Obama said in a statement.

The legislation will bring back to life security measures from the Patriot Act that were allowed to lapse after a failed attempt by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep them alive Sunday night. Republican Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul defied McConnell by filibustering the renewal of the Patriot Act for 11 hours on Sunday.

McConnell pled with fellow Republicans to vote for keeping the entire suite of powers, including the phone data collection, but failed to persuade them to support his amendments to the Freedom Act. McConnell was also on the other side of Republicans in the House, the new legislation had the support of House Speaker John Boehner.