A vote could be hours away.

I'm Lisa Lacerra. Fox News.

The House now in session as is expected to take up a short-term spending bill passed by the Senate last week.

We're very optimistic about the vote tally tonight.

We think this is going to happen, and we're sorry that it took this long.

Speaker Mike Johnson, the bill does not include the

extension of health care subsidies Democrats had pushed for. House Democrats will continue the fight

to address the Republican health care crisis and House Democrats will fight to extend the Affordable

Care Act tax credits. This fight is not over with just getting started. Democratic leader Hakeem

Jeffrey says this is bipartisan backlash over provision allowing senators to sue over a special

counsel investigation. House Speaker Mike Johnson says legislation will be taken up that would

strip a provision in the Senate's government funding bill, allowing the eight

senators whose phone records were allegedly looked at by special counsel Jack Smith to sue for

upwards of $500,000. I was surprised. I was shocked by it and I was angry by it. The alleged move

stemmed from an investigation into the events of January 6, known as Arctic Frost.

Republican Congressman Tim Burchett, though, says the senators should be allowed to sue.

I think they should. They cause him great damage.

The Speaker says the legislation will be taken up next week.

Fox is Ryan Schmels on Capitol Hill.

When the House went back into session this afternoon, Arizona Democrat Adelaide Grijalva was sworn in as the newest House member more than a month after winning a special election to fill the seat held by her late

father. After delivering a speech on the House floor, she signed a petition to trigger a vote

to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, giving it the 218 signatures needed.

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