House Votes to Kill Bill Allowing Senators to Sue Government

[Jacson6]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/politics/house-votes-to-kill-bill-allowing-senators-to-sue-government.html

The House on Wednesday voted to repeal a measure that creates a new legal avenue for senators to sue the government for at least $500,000 each if federal investigators access their phone records without notifying them.

The unanimous 426-to-0 vote reflected the deep well of bipartisan fury that built up over the provision, quietly inserted by Senate Republicans into legislation to reopen the government, that blindsided senior lawmakers overseeing spending bills.

But the repeal is likely to die in the Senate, where G.O.P. leaders appear intent on preserving the provision, saying that it protects their members against investigatory overreach.

“I am not backing off,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, one of eight Republican senators whose phone records were obtained as part of a special prosecutor’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. “I am not going to take this crap anymore. I am going into court and we’ll see what happens.”

Senators trying to get a free pay day.

[ToxMarz]

1. I think the taxpayers that pay for those phones should decide if they want

pay more of their money to the users of those phones for frivolous lawsuits they can bring as a result of privileges no one else gets they have given themselves.