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</p> [Senate GOP policing bill might be stranded at the gate]</p> “We don’t want chokeholds. They allow chokeholds, what are we going to compromise? A certain number of chokeholds?”
Concerns about police abuses and the military’s outsize role in responding to recent protests could roil the Senate’s debate on the annual Pentagon policy bill.
</p> Romanoff and his allies believe it has. </p> “Our platform hasn’t changed,” he said in a Wednesday phone interview. “It’s just gotten more urgent.”</p> Rallying the base?
</p> Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said the bill championed by Sen.
</p> The Senate committee filed its NDAA bill Tuesday evening, and the Senate could take it up in the coming days.
</p> NDAA debate [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The friction over this question will loom large when the Senate takes up the defense bill, or NDAA, which is queued up for debate next week.
</p> The House is voting on a bill to make D.C. the 51st state this Friday.
</p> But D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is repeating calls for Snyder to change the name of the Redskins, a move he has long rejected.</p> “[Fans] rally around the team.
Bill Barr is going to get to the truth,” Jordan said.</p> The result was Democrats and Republicans talking past each other for hours.
Grassley, R-Iowa, and the panel’s ranking member, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., engaged in a floor colloquy for the record on Dec. 19, the day the omnibus spending bill passed the Senate.
</p> “I have to tell you that I cannot get that bill through the House for one reason only, and that is because of the name of the team,” she said.
Thomas Massie, a Republican who President Donald Trump angrily tweeted in March should be thrown out of the party for being a “granstander” on a coronavirus relief bill, coasted to victory in his primary
</p> Scott, defending his bill Tuesday afternoon, pushed back on Democrats’ complaints for being cut out.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Further, the bill would require the military to track extremism, including racist incidents, in the ranks.
Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the bill, which was first introduced in 2018 but had lain dormant without a commitment that Mayor Bill de Blasio would sign it into law, may not have passed without
Bass’ bill, which House leaders have championed, would significantly relax the qualified immunity doctrine for police and give people the right to sue officers over actions they take on the job.
</p> “We’re talking about a bunch of different ideas that we may need to do in another bill, and we want to take our time and make sure we’re thoughtful,” Mnuchin told reporters after the closed-door
</p> It turned out, however, that Kentucky Republicans did not have a viable alternative.
</p> Brown introduced a bill in March that would allow individuals to open free bank accounts with the Federal Reserve, avoiding the fees and minimum-balance requirements that often block the poorest