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Sen. Rand Paulplayed a major role in forcing the Senate to adjourn without taking action on a controversial surveillance program. And he made it clear Monday: he's nowhere close to done.

Paul said Monday that he would continue to try to block the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, which the Senate will again take up May 31.

"What I'm looking for right now is to see if the other side will negotiate," Paul said on "CBS This Morning." The Kentucky senator said he wants to put two amendments onto a bill that would stop the government from collecting bulk phone records and leave those records with the phone companies.

"I would like to have a vote on ending the bulk collection," he said. "I think we can win that vote."

Paul said on "Fox and Friends" thatdata that has been collected should be thrown out.

"I think it should be purged," Paul said. "I think that information was collected illegally and should be purged."

Prospective presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) slammed Paul this weekend, saying theinability of Congress to act on the legislation is the result of "misguided ideologues."

[Read:Senate NSA vote underscores rift in 2016 field]

The Kentucky Republican said Christie's take "just wasn't very nice," and painted himself as a defender of the Constitution.

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