WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted unanimously Wednesday to repeal a funding bill provision that allows Sen. Tommy Tuberville and other senators to sue the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for searching their phone records without their knowledge.

The bill now moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader John Thune has not committed one way or another to holding a vote to strip away the provision that was slipped into the bill to reopen the government .

All of Alabama’s seven House members voted with the rest of the chamber to rescind the language. Tucking the provision into the funding bill immediately drew the ire of House members on both sides of the aisle last week, and that frustration carried to this week. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, called the addition “way out of li

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