The House voted to repeal a Senate GOP measure allowing lawmakers to sue the government for $500K, attaching it to a funding bill that could keep the government open.

The House approved an amendment to a must-pass funding package that would repeal a controversial provision that allows senators to sue for $500,000.

Federal lawmakers have taken a major step toward opening a tract of land near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to mining. In a 214-208 vote, largely along party lines, the House of Representatives passed a resolution Jan.