The House unanimously voted to amend a federal spending package to repeal a provision that allows senators to sue for damages if the government seized their phone records, jamming the Senate with the provision.
The chamber voted 427-0 on Thursday to attach it to lawmakers’ last set of spending bills that need to pass by Jan. 30 to avert a partial government shutdown. The House is aiming to pass the package of appropriations bills later in the day.
Senators’ eleventh-hour inclusion of the phone records provision in the shutdown-ending funding bill last year allowed senators to sue for up to ...