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Bass, however, announced last week that the lawmakers would not meet the May 25 deadline, but assured reporters that “it’s not going to take months.”
The House earlier this month approved the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in a 220-212 vote, but the legislation has since stalled in the Senate due to Republican opposition.
The bill was first introduced by Bass in June after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd s neck for more than nine minutes, killing him. Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd s murder last month.
The main sticking point between the two parties is qualified immunity, the doctrine that protects state and local government officials, including law enforcement, from most liability in civil suits unless they violate a person’s clearly established constitutional rights.
The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday that its members have agreed to drop $5,000 fines issued to both Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) for allegedly failing to complete security screenings before entering the House chamber.
The anniversary of George Floyd's murder will pass on Tuesday with Congress still haggling over new policing laws, missing that deadline President Biden set for lawmakers to find common ground.
Emergent BioSolutions, the troubled vaccine maker whose Baltimore factory ruined millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses, has been paid more than $200 million in taxpayer money despite failing to address serious manufacturing control issues, according to documents released Wednesday by House Democrats.Democrats on the Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found that under a May 2020 contract issued by the Trump.
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