Jeffries says Democrats will try to strike Senate provision from funding bill
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that House Democrats will offer an amendment during the ongoing Rules Committee meeting to remove an amendment from the Senate version of the bill that would allow for senators to sue if their phone records are investigated without notice.
"House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing, sick provision out of the spending agreement. The notion that eight Republican senators signed off by John Thune and the Republicans, apparently in the Senate and in the House, would give themselves the ability, essentially, to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from the American people so they could line their pockets because these people were insurrectionist sympathizers, is insanity," Jeffries said.

"And we're going to tattoo that provision just like we're going to tattoo the Republican health care crisis on the foreheads of every single House Republican who dares vote for this bill,” he added.
According to the bill text, senators may seek up to $500,000 in statutory damages from the government if their phone records are subpoenaed without their knowledge.
That amendment is likely to fail the Rules Committee.
-ABC News’ Meghan Mistry







