I believe the answer might actually be yes to that as well. Remember the NSA treats analysis (search) of information as different from collection of information

I believe the answer might actually be yes to that as well. Remember the NSA treats analysis (search) of information as different from collection of information. Doesn't matter though, the proposed law talks about search of American phone records which the NSA is already forbidden (even with PRISM) from looking at. In other words the new content of this law would be exactly zero, if that's all it purports to add.