But Price said: "If Section 215 [of the law which covers the collection] sunsets, we will not continue the bulk telephony metadata program".
Asked about Apple's investment in third-parties like Chinese Uber-style car service Didi Chuxing, CEO Tim Cook explained that while that trend will likely continue, the bulk of the company's investment has been and will remain in its own internal development.
"If Section 215 sunsets, we will not continue the bulk telephony metadata program," National Security Council spokesman Ned Price told Reuters in March.
Though the White House said last week it would not continue the bulk collection program under that grandfather clause, it did not clarify whether it would continue using roving wiretaps.
The selectors have continued with the bulk of the squad that lit up the early part of the season in white-ball cricket with Moeen Ali, who missed out against New Zealand to prepare for the Tests, and the fit-again seamer Chris Woakes recalled.
The traditional value of developing the best local talent was continued as the bulk of the side, including Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Srikanth Anirudha, and Subramaniam Badrinath, and Yo Mahesh moved up through Tamil Nadu cricket.
Radio and television, meanwhile, are likely to continue providing the bulk of performance royalties.
Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac are recording big profits again: but the housing crisis continues, and the bulk of American consumers spent the opening months of 2013 offsetting rising taxes and gas prices by getting out their credit cards all over again.
Defending the decision to allow that flow of equipment from the military to police to continue, the White House said the bulk of what is transferred is "fairly routine", a definition it said included "office furniture, computers and other technological equipment, personal protective equipment and basic firearms".
The investment bank continued to generate the bulk of the overall pretax profit.
