In Funding Bill, GOP Senators Give Themselves Chance For Payday Over Jan. 6 Searches

The legislation gives senators a chance to sue for $500,000 in damages if their phone records were obtained by the FBI.

Lawmakers face one last big hurdle to end shutdown: Flying to DC

Even after lawmakers agreed to end the shutdown on Sunday night, the chamber didn't adjourn until after 11 p.m. The lone ...
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Senate provision allowing some GOP to sue feds for $500k won’t extend to House Republicans

A provision tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch as part of the deal to reopen the government will allow senators to sue for as much as half a million dollars each when federal ...
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Key Illinois Democrats at odds with Durbin over shutdown vote — again

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is once again at odds with other prominent Democrats over a vote that set in motion a plan to end the ...
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Taylor Swift’s Holiday House used to be much bigger. Here’s a history of her RI estate

According to The Westerly Sun, Holiday House was first constructed by an unnamed architect in 1929-1930 for Pearl Pinkerton ...

The Richard Meier-Designed Rachofsky House in Dallas Can Now Be Yours for $23 Million

The 9,100-square-foot Preston Hollow home, now listed for $23 million, was designed to display a rotating collection of ...