JUST IN: The House has approved a historic, sweeping policing reform bill, setting up a face-off with the Republican Senate where bipartisan talks have stalled.
Congressional Black Caucus chair Karen Bass said the act is a “bill for human rights in our country.”The House has approved a historic, sweeping policing reform bill on Thursday, setting up a face-off with the Republican Senate where bipartisan talks have stalled.
"Today we have the opportunity and the obligation to ensure that his death and the death of so many others is not in vain," she said.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press event ahead of vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on the East Front House Steps on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 25, 2020.
Other requirements in the House bill include incentives for state attorneys general to investigate local police departments, and providing grants for states to create procedures for investigating police-involved deaths. But the bill stopped short of implementing federal mandates to curb police use of force and other questionable practices -- like chokeholds and carotid holds -- limiting the transfer of federal military equipment to localities and creating a national police misconduct database, shortcomings Democrats said made the bill"irrevocably flawed."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as Sen. Tim Scott speaks to reporters after the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2020. Thursday's vote in the House was expected to fall along party lines, with few -- if any -- defections on either side.
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