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An amendment quietly added to the Senate’s government shutdown bill reportedly includes a provision allowing senators to sue the federal government for $500,000 per instance – retroactively – if their senate data was accessed during a federal investigation.
The new provisions, which also include a waiver of the government’s immunity to lawsuits, were highlighted Tuesday by Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who said he was hesitant to sign the legislation due to the added language reportedly approved by both parties in the senate.
“I was very excited about coming back to Washington DC to vote to open the government back up. And then when I saw what the Senate did last night, I had a hard night and I’ve been struggling with what the right vote is because of what the Senate did,” Rep. Scott said.
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Via Rep. Scott’s testimony:
“…When you get over to page 223, you’ll see where they’ve created a private cause of action, specifically for them…
And it goes on and it says that cause of action, and this is on page 224, any senator whose Senate data or the Senate data of whose Senate office has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed or disclosed and violation of the section may bring a civil action against United States…
If the violation was committed by an officer, employer, agent in the United States, or any federal department of agency or agency, relief, Senate prevails on claiming the subjection the court shall not may, shall award for each instance of a violation of this section, the greater off, not the lesser off, the greater of statutory damages of $500,000 are the amount of actual damages, reasonable attorney fees, cost of litigation. And it goes on from there.
Now, there’s other language in here, waiver of sovereign immunity, no qualified immunity. And there’s other language in here too that indicates that each line would be an additional payment. And so most of us as members have a campaign phone, a campaign email, a personal phone, a personal email, and then a business phone and a business email. That’s six violations, the way they count. If they went for all of six, minimum of $500,000 a piece.”
Rep. Scott also called attention to provisions showing senators can sue the government retroactively for violations going back to Jan. 1, 2022.
“The thing that I can’t get past though, and this is again, I mean for the American citizens, if you go to page 227 of the bill, limited retroactivity, limited retroactive applicability…So it’s given them the ability to retroactively go back.”
Scott said he was struggling to vote to open the government considering the provision essentially creates a “list of people that know they will get paid as soon as this thing is signed.”
“At least they’ve got the coupon where all they have to do is go follow the court house and get paid. And I haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do.”
The congressman encouraged Americans to read the new provisions for themselves, starting on page 217 and ending on page 228 of the bill.
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