The House Foreign Affairs Committee formally killed a GOP proposal to give Secretary of State Marco Rubio the power to revoke Americans’ passports over alleged terror ties on Thursday — but not before Democrats lambasted the idea one last time.

Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., floated giving Rubio unilateral power over passports when he introduced a larger State Department reorganization bill last week. Following an online backlash, he introduced an amendment to his own bill dropping the idea on Sunday.

On Thursday, committee members formally approved the amendment from Mast, putting an end to the........

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