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华盛顿电 — 众议院周四通过了一项对必传拨款方案的修正案，旨在废除一项有争议的条款，该条款允许参议员在联邦调查人员在未通知其情况下搜查其电话记录时起诉并索赔50万美元。
以全票通过的方式，众议院批准了一项对管理拨款法案一揽子计划规则的修正案。下议院预计在周四晚些时候就该法案进行投票，以避免政府停摆。
参议院在11月的一项立法方案中纳入了这一条款，该方案旨在结束政府停摆。该条款要求服务提供商在获取或传唤参议员的电话记录或其他数据时必须通知他们。参议员每遭受一次违规可获50万美元赔偿，且该法律还具有追溯效力至2022年——这使得在特别顾问杰克·史密斯调查2020年大选期间电话记录被扣押的参议员可以起诉联邦政府。
数月以来，众议院议员一直对该条款表示不满，11月晚些时候众议院全票通过了一项法案以撤销该条款。但参议院共和党领袖对此条款的废除意愿不大。
11月，当一名民主党参议员寻求一致同意批准众议院通过的废除该条款的法案时，南卡罗来纳州共和党议员林赛·格雷厄姆提出反对。格雷厄姆是其电话记录被传票传唤的参议员之一。参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩与格雷厄姆在议院中提议调整该法律以“解决关于个人利益的疑问”。他表示，经修改后，根据该法律判给的任何损害赔偿将“上缴美国国库”。但这一修改尚未实施。
周四的意外修正案投票中，众议院议员通过在一项预计将通过并送往上议院的支出方案中纳入废除该争议条款的内容，实际上阻塞了参议院。距离避免部分政府停摆的最后期限仅剩一周多，且众议院下周将休会，参议院别无选择，只能批准该方案——否则将引发停摆。
北卡罗来纳州共和党议员弗吉尼亚·福克斯（Virginia Foxx）主持众议院规则委员会，她提出了这项修正案。马萨诸塞州民主党议员吉姆·麦戈文（Jim McGovern）在众议院表示，“终于等到这一天了”。
House amends funding package to repeal law allowing senators to sue for $500k, jamming upper chamber
January 22, 2026 / 12:09 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — The House approved an amendment to a must-pass funding package Thursday that would repeal a controversial provision that allows senators to sue for $500,000 if federal investigators search their phone records without their knowledge.
In a unanimous vote, the House approved an amendment to the rule that governs the package of funding bills, which the lower chamber is expected to vote on later Thursday ahead of a deadline to avert a government shutdown.
The Senate included the provision in a legislative package to bring an end to the government shutdown in November. It requires service providers to notify senators if their phone records or other data are seized or subpoenaed. Senators are entitled to $500,000 for each violation, and the law also applies retroactively to 2022 — allowing the senators whose phone records were seized during special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the 2020 election to sue the federal government.
Lawmakers in the House have expressed frustration over the provision for months, and the House unanimously passed a bill later in November to roll it back. But Senate GOP leaders have expressed little willingness to do away with the provision.
When one Democratic senator sought unanimous consent to approve the House-passed measure to repeal the provision in November, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, objected. Graham is one of the senators whose phone records were subpoenaed. Senate Majority Leader John Thune joined Graham on the floor to propose that the law be adjusted to “address the question that has been raised about personal enrichment.” He said that, with the change, any damages awarded under the law would be “forfeited to the United States Treasury.” But the change has not been made.
With the surprise amendment vote on Thursday, lawmakers in the House are effectively jamming the Senate by including the repeal of the controversial provision in a spending package that the House is expected to pass and send over to the upper chamber. And with just over a week before the deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, and the House set to be away on recess next week, the Senate will have no option but to approve the package — or prompt a shutdown.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Rules Committee, introduced the amendment. Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on the House floor that “it’s about damn time.”
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