House unanimously votes to strip senators’ ability to sue DOJ over phone record searches The House voted unanimously to repeal a provision allowing senators to sue the DOJ for up to $500,000 if their phone records were seized without notification. The repeal was attached to a must-pass funding bill, forcing the Senate to accept it or risk a government shutdown. The clause was quietly inserted into a November 2025 spending bill that ended a 43-day shutdown. It was a response to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “Arctic Frost” investigation, which subpoenaed GOP lawmakers’ records during the 2020 election probe. House Republicans, led…

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