"The House, you took the Arctic Frost language of the Senate and took it all out. You could have called me about the $500,000. I would be glad to work with you. You jammed me, Speaker Johnson! I won't forget this."
"You took the provision and you gutted it. You took the notification provision out telling senators or congressmen they're asking for your phone records when you're not under criminal investigation, and you should knowIt's Republicans today, could be Democrats tomorrow. We should all want to be notified as senators if a separate branch of government, the Executive Branch, is looking for our phone records unless we're charged or investigating a crime. That's just common sense."
"They took that out. There was a stampede in the House. Everybody says, Well, it passed unanimously in the House. I could care less! What you did, I think was wrong. You're overreacting. We'll fix the $500,000. Count me in. But you took the notification out, and I'm not going to give up on that."
Sen. Lindsey Graham ended a Senate blockade that had been preventing passage of the House funding package after securing commitments and signaling objections. He demanded a future vote on his bill to end sanctuary cities and requested a delayed vote related to the Arctic Frost investigation that obtained phone records of some senators. He criticized the House for removing the Senate's Arctic Frost language and for eliminating a $500,000 potential taxpayer payout for senators allegedly wronged by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 probe. He insisted on a notification requirement for phone-record requests to protect members of Congress and pledged to pursue that protection.
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