There’s growing backlash over a provision of the spending bill that would allow eight Republican senators to personally sue the government for up to $1 million if their phone records were seized as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin called the measure “one of the most blatantly corrupt provisions for political self-dealing and the plunder of public resources ever proposed in Congress.” On Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was “shocked” and “angry” after he learned of the provision, and promised to schedule a vote next week to repeal it.