The House of Representatives will seek to overturn the last-minute Senate “Arctic Frost” provision in the short-term government funding bill following interparty upset and public backlash last week.

What’s in the ‘Arctic Frost’ provision?

The “Arctic Frost” provision, added to the bill to fund the government through Jan. 31, 2026, allows senators to sue the federal government for surveilling them without their knowledge in response to a Biden-era investigation by former special counsel Jack Smith into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, in which eight GOP senators’ data were collected by the Justice Department.

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