House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday vowed to remove language from a bill to end the government shutdown that would allow Sen. Tommy Tuberville , R-Ala., and seven other senators to sue the federal government.

Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said he was unaware of the provision enabling Tuberville to sue the government for at least $500,000 for not giving the senators notice that their phone records were accessed as part of then-special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“It was a really bad look,” Johnson said, according to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News . “And we’re going to fix it in the House.”

Johnson’s statement on the provision comes a day after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. likened the lawsuit opportunity to a “slush fun

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