VOTES IN THE U.S. HOUSE

HR 7120: ESTABLISHING GROUND RULES FOR POLICE

Voting 236 for and 181 against, the House on Thursday passed a Democratic-sponsored bill that would set federal rules and guidelines for law enforcement practices at all levels of government. In addition to imposing rules for the tens of thousands of federal police officers, the bill includes requirements for state and local law enforcement and uses the disbursement or threatened withholding of federal funds to encourage compliance. Congress typically delivers hundreds of millions of dollars annually to state and local law enforcement. Among its wide-ranging provisions, the bill would:

• Chokeholds: Prohibit federal law enforcement from using chokeholds or other applications of pressure on the carotid arteries, throats or windpipes of persons being restrained. Financial incentives would encourage state and local police to also outlaw such tactics. The use of chokeholds based on race would be defined as a civil rights violation.

• Qualified immunity: Eliminate the “qualified immunity” defense from civil federal and nonfederal litigation in which a police officer is being sued for damages based on misconduct including excessive use of force. At present, accused officers can obtain immunity merely by showing their conduct was not prohibited by “clearly established law” rather than a specific statute or regulation.

• No-knock warrants: Prohibit the use of no-knock warrants in federal drug cases, and use federal funding as leverage to persuade states and localities to bar the use of such warrants in nonfederal drug enforcement.

• Misconduct registry: Establish a National Police Misconduct Registry for data on officers fired by local police departments for reasons including excessive use of force. The database could be used to identify police applicants with troublesome employment histories.

• Racial profiling: Prohibit racial, religious and discriminatory profiling by federal and nonfederal law enforcement. Individuals could bring civil actions for declaratory or injunctive relief.

• Use of force standard: Amend federal law to justify use of force on grounds it was “necessary” rather than merely “reasonable,” and use financial incentives to encourage state and local law enforcement to adopt the same standard.

• Use of force reporting: Require state and local police to report use-of-force data to a new Justice Department database, breaking down the information by race, sex, disability, religion and age. Justice could also collect data on local officers’ body frisks and traffic and pedestrian stops. • Military equipment: Limit the transfer of military equipment from the Department of Defense to state and local police agencies.

• Camera requirements: Require uniformed federal police to wear body cameras and marked federal police cars to mount dashboard cameras, and give local departments financial incentives to equip officers with body cameras.

• Standard of evidence: Lower the criminal intent standard of evidence in police misconduct prosecutions under federal law from “willfulness” to “recklessness.”

• Local oversight commissions: Fund local commissions and task forces for developing practices based mainly on community policing rather than the use of force.

• Investigating departments: Give the Department of Justice subpoena power for investigating discriminatory and brutal “patterns and practices” by local departments, and fund efforts by state attorneys general to investigate troubled municipal departments.

• Accreditation: Require all 18,000 local police departments in the United States to adopt of law-enforcement accreditation standards.

• Sexual misconduct: Make it a crime for a federal police officer to engage in sex, even if it is consensual, with an individual under arrest or in custody, and use financial incentives to encourage states to enact the same prohibition.

A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate.

Yes: Brian Fitzpatrick, R-1st (Bucks, parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia), Madeleine Dean, D-4th (Montgomery, parts of Berks), Chrissy Houlahan, D-6th (Chester), Susan Wild, D-7th (Lehigh, Northampton, parts of Monroe)

No: Dan Meuser, R-9th (Schuylkill, parts of Carbon and Berks)

REJECTING SENATE POLICE BILL

Voting 180 for and 236 against, the House on Thursday defeated a bid to replace a Democraticsponsored police bill (HR 7120, above) with a less extensive proposal by Senate Republicans (below). House Republicans said the Senate bill includes far-reaching reforms and could reach President Trump’s desk this year, while Democrats called it unworthy of the Black Lives Matter movement because it lacks enforcement, omits certain reforms and favors study over action. A yes vote was to embrace the Senate GOP police bill.

Yes: Fitzpatrick, Meuser

No: Dean, Houlahan, Wild

HJ RES 76: FAILING TO OVERRIDE VETO ON STUDENT LOANS

Voting 238 for and 173 against, the House on Friday failed to reach a two-thirds majority needed to override President Trump’s veto of a measure concerning an administration rule on student loan forgiveness. The effect of the vote was to affirm a rule that critics said would provide forgiveness to only 3% of some 200,000 claimants who allege their school fraudulently misrepresented the quality of education they would receive. But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testified that the rule would correct the “blanket forgiveness” of an Obama administration socalled “borrower defense” rule it replaced. The Trump rule bars class-action lawsuits against schools and requires claims to be adjudicated one-by-one by mandatory arbitration rather than in open court, with borrowers prohibited from appealing the decision. The rule sets a standard of evidence requiring borrowers to prove the fraud was intentional. A yes vote was to override the presidential veto.

Yes: Fitzpatrick, Dean, Houlahan, Wild

No: Meuser

HR 51: CONFERRING STATEHOOD ON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Voting 232 for and 180 against, the House on Friday passed a bill that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state, renamed as Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. As a state, the new Washington, D.C., would acquire voting rights in Congress, with one representative and two senators, and would have control over property within its present boundaries with exceptions including the Capitol complex, national monuments, the Supreme Court, the National Mall and nearby federal buildings, the White House complex and assorted other lots and edifices. Created by the Constitution as the seat of government not within any state, and established initially on land carved out of Maryland and Virginia in 1790, the 68-square-mile District of Columbia, with about 700,000 residents, has limited self-government but is ultimately ruled by Congress. A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate.

Yes: Dean, Houlahan, Wild

No: Fitzpatrick, Meuser

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