Yes…
Lawmakers of BOTH parties….
The Republicans won’t work with Democrats in Congress on anything IS over….And this on Policing….
A bipartisan group of lawmakers working on legislative efforts to overhaul policingappear to be nearing an agreement to set federal standards for no-knock warrants, ban chokeholds except in life-threatening situations and place limits on equipment the Defense Department can send to state and local police departments, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
Sens. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, and Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, and Rep. Karen Bass, a California Democrat, have been leading the charge to craft a bipartisan bill that can pass the 60-vote threshold in the United States Senate, and with the chamber returning to Washington on Monday, in-person talks between the key negotiators are expected to continue.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the details of the tentative agreement.
While progress has been made on what’s known as the 1033 program, which allows for the transfer of military equipment from the Department of Defense to state and local police departments, two major issues remain. One of them is qualified immunity, which protects police officers from civil lawsuits. Scott has proposed shifting the responsibility to police departments as opposed to individual officers. Democrats have said both the officers and departments should be held accountable….
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“It’s a negotiation. Nothing is ever off the table until the deal is done,” another source familiar with the talks told CNN last week…
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Last week, just before recess began, there was a new sign of momentum as Booker, Scott and Bass expanded their discussions to a larger group that included Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Republican Rep. Pete Stauber of Minnesota.
After the meeting, Booker pledged the group will continue to meet “until we get this done.”
Yes this has never happened before!
Wow!What a scoop!
Actually the GOPer’s didn’t want a darn thing to to do with the Democrats after the Big Guy lost his job….
How many voted for the Stimulus Package?
How many voted against Biden cabinet picks?
No scoop…
Just a read of the factual actions by the GOPer’s who have been afraid to help the Dem’s on much of anything least Trump start crying about it….
My sarcasm was directed at your hyperbolic claim that…
“The Republicans won’t work with Democrats in Congress is over.”
My point is that Senators often work together across the aisle on relatively non controversial matters.
Police “reform “is one of those issues.Everyone essentially concedes that Police need some changing.The question is what kind of changes?
Since Police are basically a local and state issue,the federal role is mostly providing financial grants to aid states and localities in specific areas of Police work.
Just because they are working together on this issue is no reason to immediately jump to the conclusion that such heralds a new day in Congress .
It doesn’t.
Watch more controversial issues and see how far this type of bipartisanship goes.
People who understand politics grasp this and can easily discern the difference.
Because you are obsessed with “proving” that the Republicans are “really” changing ,you seize upon relatively non significant happenings such as this to support your position.It doesn’t.
But by all means keep trying to “prove” that Republicans are coming around to this new day of cooperation that you keep dreaming of.
It’s nice for a boy to have his dreams!
And then,of course ,there is this….
“One hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration .”We’re confronted with severe challenges from anew administration ,and a narrow majority of Democrat in the House and a 59/50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country and its 100% of my focus.”
Mitch McConnell
Yeah those Republicans are really eager to “working with Democrats.”