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The House on Thursday moved to jam the Senate with a repeal of a law that allowed senators to sue for substantial sums if they weren’t notified when law enforcement sought their phone records — adding the repeal to a government funding bill that the Senate will have to approve next week or risk
The House approved an amendment to a must-pass funding package that would repeal a controversial provision that allows senators to sue for $500,000.
The House voted to repeal a Senate GOP measure allowing lawmakers to sue the government for $500K, attaching it to a funding bill that could keep the government open.
After Senate Republicans empowered themselves to file lucrative “Arctic Frost” lawsuits, House Republicans voted unanimously to take that power away.
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White House not budging on Democrats' demands as DHS funding mutiny threatens government shutdown
The White House rejected Democrats' demands to strip DHS funding from a spending bill as the government shutdown threat looms with a Friday deadline.