Driven by a rare urgency, U.S. Senate Republicans to restrict police chokeholds in emerging bill
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the package set to roll out Wednesday. While it doesn't go as far as a sweeping Democratic bill heading toward a House vote, the emerging GOP legislation shares similar provisions as Congress rushes to respond.
The GOP package is one of the most extensive proposed overhauls to policing procedures yet from Republicans, who have long aligned with Trump's "law and order" approach but are suddenly confronted with a groundswell of public unrest in cities large and small over police violence. Additionally, the GOP package is expected to restrict the use of chokeholds by withholding certain federal funds to jurisdictions that continue to allow the practice, according a Senate Republican unauthorized to discuss the pending bill and granted anonymity.
"This is not a time for lowest common denominator, watered-down reforms," said Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., a co-author of the Democratic bill, on CBS's "Face the Nation." "It's a time to stop the problem.""I never call anything a nonstarter," said Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the House's third-ranking Democrat.
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