{"id":15995,"date":"2025-11-24T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-unanimously-rebukes-thune-on-data-seizure-payouts-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:20:33","slug":"house-unanimously-rebukes-thune-on-data-seizure-payouts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-unanimously-rebukes-thune-on-data-seizure-payouts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House unanimously rebukes Thune on data seizure payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House unanimously voted 426-0 Wednesday night to claw back language in last week&#8217;s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records unknowingly obtained by former special counsel Jack Smith. The language, which was quietly slipped into the shutdown-ending package last week by Senate Majority Leader John Thune&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/19\/congress\/house-votes-to-overturn-thunes-controversial-subpoena-measure-00661169\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House unanimously voted 426-0 Wednesday night to claw back language in last week&#8217;s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records unknowingly obtained by former special counsel Jack Smith. The language, which was quietly slipped into the shutdown-ending package last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}