House votes to overturn provision included in shutdown

WASHINGTON — 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.

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.

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