House lawmakers voted unanimously Thursday morning to overturn a policy Senate Republicans got enacted last year allowing senators to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal payouts if their electric records were unknowingly collected — a measure aimed to benefiting lawmakers who saw their data seized as part of a Joe Biden-era investigation of President Donald Trump.
In an effort to force the Senate into accepting the provision, the House is including the language in the Homeland Security funding bill the chamber plans to vote on later Thursday.
The House already voted in November to scrap the policy, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been steadfast against overturning it.
