House Republicans balk at Senate provision letting lawmakers sue over ‘Arctic Frost’ phone records

Three House Republicans voiced frustration over a last-minute provision added to the Senate-passed government funding bill that would retroactively allow senators targeted in the "Arctic Frost" investigation to sue the U.S. government for at least $500,000 each.Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Morgan Griffith, R-Va., and Austin Scott, R-Ga., criticized the Senate provision Tuesday evening during a House Rules Committee hearing.Scott was first to highlight the provision, which states that "any Senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched,