The House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to advance a bill repealing a provision of the recent federal funding bill that allows U.S. Senators to sue the government for up to half a million dollars over their phone records being seized.

The affected records were data about when senators made calls, to whom, and how long those calls lasted between January 4 and January 7, subpoenaed as part of the federal government’s investigation into the fake electors schemes that followed the 2020 election.

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has been an especially vocal critic of what he has described as spying on the phones of U.S. Senators. On November 13, Tuberville posted that he would consider “[suing] the living hell out of every Biden official involved in this to make sure this

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