South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham laid out a list of demands Friday that he said would enable him to relent and allow swift action on a $1.2 trillion package of full-year appropriations for several Cabinet departments and a temporary patch for another.
The Republican senator pressed for a commitment on separate votes at a later date on two of his top priorities.
One is Graham’s bill to criminalize the behavior of local officials who lead “sanctuary cities” that don’t help enforce federal immigration policy. Another is a proposal he hasn’t introduced yet that would bar federal investigators from acquiring the telephone records of members of Congress in court-sanctioned probes without notification.
