The US House of Representatives was expected to vote on Wednesday to repeal a controversial provision allowing senators to sue federal investigators for 500000 over unannounced phone record searches in the latest sign of fraying Republican unity 10 months into President Donald Trumps second term The widely criticized Senate provision tucked into an unrelated funding bill that ended the longest government shutdown in US history last week would allow eight Republican senators to seek millions of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from Democratic President Joe Biden administrations investigation of the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters Wednesdays House vote marked the second time this week that Republicans have shown cracks in the partisan cohesion that has dominated the party since Trump took office in January After months of bitter debate and opposition from Trump the House and Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted a measure requiring the Justice Department to divulge its unclassified materials on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
