Friday, November 21, 2025

House Votes to Overturn Provision of Shutdown-Ending Bill

The House voted to overturn a controversial provision approved in the spending package to reopen the government last week, but Republican leaders in the Senate are slow-walking a commitment to fully repeal the measure.

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The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.

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-- Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree.bsky.social) Nov 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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... Lawmakers voted unanimously in a rare bipartisan vote to reverse language passed in the government funding bill that would allow senators to sue the federal government for hundreds of thousands of dollars if their phone records are subpoenaed or obtained without prior consent or knowledge.

That language was negotiated in bipartisan talks in the Senate, but was added to the funding bill without House Republicans' knowledge, many of them say " including Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., the top House lawmaker tasked with funding the government.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also told reporters he was blindsided by the provision and that he found it "way out of line."

"I don't think that was a smart thing to do," he said last week. "I don't think it was the right thing to do, and the House is going to reverse it." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:52 AM

@#1 ... House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also told reporters he was blindsided by the provision and that he found it "way out of line."

"I don't think that was a smart thing to do," he said last week. ...

OK, please excuse me for saying this but ...

Spkr Johnson using the word "smart" in a sentence to describe why he might have been "blindsided" is not something I'd prefer the Spkr of the House (third in line for the Presidency) to utter.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 01:57 AM

GOP wants to loot the Treasury legally.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-11-21 08:29 AM

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also told reporters he was blindsided by the provision and that he found it "way out of line."

You, the Speaker, were blind sighted by legislation you pushed? May I question your competence?

What would Sam say?

#4 | Posted by et_al at 2025-11-21 08:57 AM

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