Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky holds up anti-lynching legislation as he seeks changes to the bill
"We want the bill to be stronger," Paul told reporters on Capitol Hill."We think that lynching is an awful thing that should be roundly condemned and should be universally condemned."He addressed the problems he sees with the bill, which passed the House in February on a 410-4 vote and that Senate supporters hoped to pass by unanimous consent until he objected.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer criticized Paul over the move on Wednesday, tweeting,"It is shameful that one GOP Senator is standing in the way of seeing this bill become law."The language of the House bill, which was named for Emmett Till, the 14-year-old murdered in Mississippi in 1955, is very similar to another anti-lynching bill that passed the Senate last year by unanimous consent.
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