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House Votes to Claw Back Provision Allowing Senators to Sue over Jan. 6 Investigations

HeadlineNov 20, 2025

The House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to rescind a provision of the recently passed 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 attack. Maryland Democratic Congressmember 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.” It’s not clear whether the bill to repeal the language will get a vote in the Senate.

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