Recess yields progress on bipartisan effort to overhaul policing
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New progress in the bipartisan legislative effort to overhaul policing has been made on no-knock warrants and chokeholds, according to a source familiar with the discussions, as congressional staffers spent recess working to hammer out key issues that remain.
Sens. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, and Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, and Rep. Karen Bass, a California Democrat, have been leading the charge to craft a bipartisan bill that can pass the 60-vote threshold in the United States Senate, and with the chamber returning to Washington on Monday, in-person talks between the key negotiators are expected to continue.
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5 visuals explain the shifting House seats and how the changes could affect the 2022 midterm elections
States that gained seats were mostly Republican-leaning. States that lost seats were mostly Democratic, but consisted of more close battleground states.
Jim Sergent, Jeanine Santucci, Katie Wadington and Sean Rossman, USA TODAY
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12:42 pm UTC Apr. 28, 2021
The Census Bureau announced Monday seven House seats will shift as a result of the 2020 Census, many moving to Republican-leaning states and exiting states that tend to vote Democrat.
That scenario could affect whether Democrats can hold on to their narrow advantage in the House in the 2022 midterm elections.
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