Live updates: Thune rebuffs House GOP push to repeal controversial Senate provision ahead of vote

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday dismissed the House’s efforts to potentially repeal a measure in the government shutdown bill, which would allow senators to sue the Justice Department over phone surveillance.   He argued that the provision to give Republican senators standing to sue the federal government for $500,000 in damages was narrowly…
Source: The Hill