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The bill passed the House of Representatives by a 360–59 vote the same day, with remarks from many congressional members, including Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10), who acknowledged that though the bill did not include sentencing reform as some would have liked, it was an "important first step" that was able to unify groups as divergent as #cut50 ...
In August 2017, the governor passed a reform bill for the criminal justice system of Connecticut. This bill included a bail reform to get rid of cash bail for misdemeanor level and non-violent offenses. It also included a requirement of a criminal conviction before seizing the asset(s) someone put up for bail.
The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote of 220–212, [5] but not the evenly divided but Democratic-controlled Senate amid opposition from Republicans. [6] [7] Negotiations between Republican and Democratic senators on a reform bill collapsed in September 2021. [7]
The House passed an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday on a vote of 263-156, teeing up major immigration reform at the start of President Donald Trump's second administration.
Friday’s procedural vote required 60 votes for the bill to advance, which meant that some Democrats needed to cross the aisle to vote with Republicans, who control only a 53-seat majority. The ...
Republicans will start next year with a 53-47 Senate majority, which would require seven Democrats to vote with them to pass bills. However, reconciliation allows some tax and spending bills to ...
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123, also called the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 or SRCA) is a bipartisan [1] criminal justice reform bill introduced into the United States Senate on October 1, 2015, by Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Lawmakers failed to meet Joe Biden’s deadline for comprehensive police reform legislation. Republicans say the bill is a ‘nonstarter’ while families of victims of police violence demand action