It’s nearly impossible to imagine how police reform is revived this year after today's spectacle on the Senate floor. After begging for a debate earlier this month, Dems rejected a motion to bring the GOP’s bill to the floor, arguing it couldn’t be saved
It’s nearly impossible to imagine how police reform is revived this year after Wednesday’s spectacle on the Senate floor.
“If this is their best offer, it’s just not worth doing. It’s a bad bill. It gives the impression of having done something when it actually does almost nothing,” said Sen. Chris Murphy . “We’re better off admitting that now rather than faking our way through a process that’s going to end up in nothing.”Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham. | Carolyn Kaster, Pool/AP Photo
Members of both parties are hesitant to fully declare the effort dead in the middle of nationwide protests and anger over the police killings of Black Americans. The House will pass its own police reform bill on Thursday, which imposes stronger federal policing standards than Scott’s, including by putting an end to chokeholds and no-knock warrants and loosening rules protecting police from being sued.
“The moment for there to be a negotiation about what or might not actually pass is after it’s clear that we’re not going to just simply proceed with” the GOP bill, argued Sen. Chris Coons . “For some reason, they don’t understand we’re not in the majority. OK? The wish list? I wish all that would happen. It should go through committee,” Manchin said of his colleagues’ demands. “But that’s not the way McConnell’s going to work. You can’t force that.”
Yet even if the result was predictable, the raw emotion from individual senators was real on Wednesday afternoon as they sifted through the wreckage. Sens. Tim Kaine and Ben Sasse even briefly debated Senate procedure on the floor, a relative rarity these days.
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