The U.S. House of Representatives was expected to vote on Wednesday to repeal a controversial provision allowing senators to sue federal investigators for $500,000 over unannounced phone record searches, in the latest sign of fraying Republican unity 10 months into President Donald Trump’s second term.

The widely criticized Senate provision, tucked into an unrelated funding bill that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. 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 administration’s investigation of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.

Wednesday’s House vote marked the second time this week that Republicans have shown cracks

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