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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 ... 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.