House Unanimously Passes Bill To Shut Down Senator Payday Over Jan. 6 Probe
Story by Arthur Delaney, Igor Bobic • 10h
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night to kill a new law that potentially awards Republican senators millions of dollars in damages over the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation.
The vote was unanimous, with the bill passing 426 to 0. But it’s not clear if the Senate will take it up.
Before the vote, a bipartisan chorus of House lawmakers criticized the prospect of senators getting paid millions of dollars as a direct result of a law they wrote. The provision granted senators — and only senators — the right to file special lawsuits against the government if their phone records were obtained by the Justice Department in the course of an investigation, with damages amounting to $500,000 per violation.
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