House Republicans “did not properly do [their] work” on a measure tied to former special counsel Jack Smith’s seizure of lawmakers’ phone records, before the Senate unanimously approved the provision that was tucked into the Senate’s short-term funding bill, according to Rep. Pete Sessions on Newsmax Thursday.
“The House did not properly do its work by completing and having a bill that would be available,” the Texas Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Early,” adding that Democrats had brought legislation to the Rules Committee nine times while Republicans failed to provide “better context” for how they intended to handle Justice Department files.
His comments come after Senate Majority Leader John Thune strongly defended the provision, which would allow senators to seek up to $500,000 in damages from the Justice Department if their communications or activities were secretly surveilled during the “Arctic Frost” investigation.
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