{"id":18055,"date":"2026-01-22T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:32:17","slug":"house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to kill Senate data-seizure payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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 \u2014 a measure aimed to benefiting lawmakers who saw their data seized as part of a Joe Biden-era investigation of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The House already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/19\/congress\/house-votes-to-overturn-thunes-controversial-subpoena-measure-00661169\" target=\"_blank\">voted in November<\/a> to scrap the policy, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been steadfast against overturning it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 a measure aimed to benefiting lawmakers who saw their data seized as part of a Joe Biden-era investigation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","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=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}