{"id":18140,"date":"2026-01-24T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:21:07","slug":"house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to kill Senate data-seizure payouts"},"content":{"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 &mdash; a measure aimed at benefiting lawmakers who saw their data seized as part of a Joe Biden-era investigation of President Donald Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/22\/congress\/house-votes-to-kill-senate-data-seizure-payouts-00740925\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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 &mdash; a measure aimed at 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18140","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\/18140","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=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}