WASHINGTON – Several eyebrow-raising proposals are tucked into the bills that are on track to end the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown.
While most of lawmakers' attention has centered in recent days around measures to reverse thousands of federal employee layoffs, restart critical services and generally turn the government's lights back on, a handful of smaller provisions in the giant funding package jump out for what else could soon become law with President Donald Trump's signature.
Some of the measures are bipartisan; others much less so. And while none are likely to fully derail the fast-moving legislation that is expected to pass the House on Wednesday, a few of them could present political problems.
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The most controversial of the measures in the funding package allows a group of Republican senators to sue the government for up to $500,000.
