DOJ Oversight/Arctic Frost

The House voted unanimously (427–0) to repeal a Senate‑added "Arctic Frost" clause that would let certain senators sue for up to $500,000 over secret seizures of phone toll records tied to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe — a provision credited to Sen. John Thune with Sen. Chuck Schumer’s consent. In the Senate, however, unanimous‑consent efforts to clear the repeal were blocked: Sen. Lindsey Graham objected to immediate passage and Sen. Thune’s alternative to forfeit any damages to the Treasury was objected to by Democrats including Sens. Gary Peters and Martin Heinrich, leaving the issue stalled before the Thanksgiving recess.