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Yesterday the GOP brought up a police reform bill in the US Senate for debate. That's it, nothing more than a vote to talk about the Republican effort to address police reform. The vote requires 60 votes to begin the debate on the bill, but the Democrats blocked it. They said the bill was so bad they couldn't even consider it, couldn't even consider making any changes to it.
NOTE: the bill also requires 60 votes to close debate and vote on passing the bill. If the Dems didn't like the results, they could've blocked it then. But no, they had to block it now. Why? Because then it looks like the GOP tried to do something about police reform. Cant have that if you're a Democrat, so they blocked the debate from even beginning.
Senator Schumer sent a letter to Leader McConnell saying the Dems wanted 5 things in the bill that had to be changed. So Senator Tim Scott, who wrote the bill, goes to McConnell and they agree to vote on the 5 Amendments. Scott goes back to the Dems who say there's not just 5, there's 20. So make 20 Amendments to the bill during the debate, that's how it's supposed to work. We want this, you want that, let's make a deal. Didn't happen, the Dems wouldn't even talk about it. Why?
Answer: because it was a Republican bill. "The actual problem is not what is being offered. It is who is offering it. Took me a long time to figure out the most obvious thing in the room. It's not they what," Scott said.
"What I missed in this issue is that the stereotyping of Republicans is just as toxic and poison to the outcomes of the most vulnerable communities in this nation. That's the issue. When Speaker Pelosi says one of the most heinous things I can imagine: that the Republicans are actually trying to cover up murder, the murder of George Floyd with our legislation, that's not politics. That's not a game to win. That's you lose."
Here's the thing: Scott understands that the real reason why Senate Democrats rejected debate on the bill is because they don’t want to give the Republicans and Trump any sort of legislative victory at a time when Democrats are trying to score all the racially-charged political points they can in a critical election year. IOW, they put the good of their party ahead of the good for the country and the people who need police reform the most. How much better would it be for all of us if Congress could pass a bipartisan police reform bill? Now, not next January.
This is the link to Senator Scott's speech on the Senate floor yesterday. I ain't going to say the GOP doesn't do the same thing sometimes. There are times when one party just cannot agree to what the other one wants to do, it's too antithetical to what they stand for. I get that, but this police reform bill is not that kind of thing, it could've and should've have been a bipartisan effort to do something good for the country for a change. Sad that it didn't happen.
NOTE: the bill also requires 60 votes to close debate and vote on passing the bill. If the Dems didn't like the results, they could've blocked it then. But no, they had to block it now. Why? Because then it looks like the GOP tried to do something about police reform. Cant have that if you're a Democrat, so they blocked the debate from even beginning.
Senator Schumer sent a letter to Leader McConnell saying the Dems wanted 5 things in the bill that had to be changed. So Senator Tim Scott, who wrote the bill, goes to McConnell and they agree to vote on the 5 Amendments. Scott goes back to the Dems who say there's not just 5, there's 20. So make 20 Amendments to the bill during the debate, that's how it's supposed to work. We want this, you want that, let's make a deal. Didn't happen, the Dems wouldn't even talk about it. Why?
Answer: because it was a Republican bill. "The actual problem is not what is being offered. It is who is offering it. Took me a long time to figure out the most obvious thing in the room. It's not they what," Scott said.
"What I missed in this issue is that the stereotyping of Republicans is just as toxic and poison to the outcomes of the most vulnerable communities in this nation. That's the issue. When Speaker Pelosi says one of the most heinous things I can imagine: that the Republicans are actually trying to cover up murder, the murder of George Floyd with our legislation, that's not politics. That's not a game to win. That's you lose."
Here's the thing: Scott understands that the real reason why Senate Democrats rejected debate on the bill is because they don’t want to give the Republicans and Trump any sort of legislative victory at a time when Democrats are trying to score all the racially-charged political points they can in a critical election year. IOW, they put the good of their party ahead of the good for the country and the people who need police reform the most. How much better would it be for all of us if Congress could pass a bipartisan police reform bill? Now, not next January.
This is the link to Senator Scott's speech on the Senate floor yesterday. I ain't going to say the GOP doesn't do the same thing sometimes. There are times when one party just cannot agree to what the other one wants to do, it's too antithetical to what they stand for. I get that, but this police reform bill is not that kind of thing, it could've and should've have been a bipartisan effort to do something good for the country for a change. Sad that it didn't happen.
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