Um…YOU voted for the bill. Did you not READ the bill before you passed it?
The House GOP has been acting all betrayed because the Senate added a measure that would allow senators targeted by special counsel Jack Smith in Arctic Frost to sue the government for up to $500,000.
It was literally in the bill. If you read the entire bill, then you know it was in there, and yet you voted for it.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) knew about the measure and thought it would prevent Republicans and others from voting for the bill to end the shutdown.
Ending the shutdown ultimately won. From Fox News:
It was placed into the bill by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and given the green light by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.Thune put the provision into the bill at the request of members of the Senate GOP, a source familiar with the negotiations told Fox News Digital, which included Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.It was a big point of contention when the House Rules Committee met to prepare the legislation for a final vote on Tuesday night. Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Austin Scott, R-Ga., and Morgan Griffith, R-Va., all shared House Democrats’ frustration with the measure, but they made clear it would not stand in the way of ending what had become the longest shutdown in history.Those Republicans agreed with the motivations behind their Senate counterparts wanting to sue but bristled over the notion that it would come at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
Some of the Republicans targeted by Smith didn’t like the measure.
But again, they still voted for the bill just like the House Republicans.
The repeal should pass the House with bipartisan support.
Maybe that’s why the Republicans voted for the bill despite the provision.
However, what will Senate Majority Leader John Thune do when the repeal passes the House?
According to Politico, eight Senate Republicans subpoenaed by Smith approved of the measure.
“Oh definitely,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). “And if you think I’m going to settle this thing for a million dollars — no. I want to make it so painful, no one ever does this again … I’m going to pursue through the court system — remedies.”
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