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Breaking: Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism bill
The Hill ^ | 05/26/22 12:50 PM ET| | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 05/26/2022 11:00:12 AM PDT by RandFan

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill to create domestic terrorism offices within federal law enforcement agencies in response to a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 people dead.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) framed the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act as an opportunity to vote on Republican and Democratic amendments to curb gun violence, but his plea for GOP support to begin the debate fell flat with Republican colleagues.

“The bill is so important because the mass shooting in Buffalo was an act of domestic terrorism. We need to call it what it is, domestic terrorism. It was terrorism that fed off the poison of conspiracy theories like white replacement theory,” Schumer said on the floor before the vote.

The vote broke down along party lines, 47-47, with not a single Republican voting for the measure.

The legislation would have created an interagency task force within the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to analyze and combat white supremacist infiltration in the military and federal law enforcement agencies.

Republican senators argued that new federal laws and offices are not needed to monitor and prosecute domestic terrorism because politically motivated violence is already covered by existing laws.

They also voiced concerns that the bill could open the door to improper surveillance of political groups and create a double standard for extreme groups on the right and left of the political spectrum.

The failed Senate vote comes roughly one week after the House passed the legislation largely along partisan lines, 222 to 203. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) was the only Republican to vote for it.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called the legislation an “insult” to police officers and military servicemembers.

“It would be the Democrat plan to name our police as white supremacists and neo-Nazis. I met policemen throughout Kentucky and I’ve not met one policeman motivated or consumed with any kind of racial rage,” he said.

“What an insult it is to put a bill before the House and say our Marines are consumed with white supremacy and neo-Nazism,” he added.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; banglist; chuckschumer; demagogue; kissinger; military; nationalization; policestate; racebaiterschumer; randpaulsucks; senate; thehill; theshill; tyranny
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1 posted on 05/26/2022 11:00:12 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Is Schumer concerned about this?

MathBoiFly (Waukesha terrorist), June 9, 2020, online post:

“We start bakk knokkin white people TF ion wanna hear it. The old white ppl 2. Knokk Dem TF out. Period.”


2 posted on 05/26/2022 11:05:56 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: RandFan

47-47

Just goes to show how divided the nation is and that the left thinks all Whites are White supremacists.


3 posted on 05/26/2022 11:06:06 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: RandFan
Breaking: Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism bill

Nah, the Pubbies blocked the Make 1984 Real Bill

We need Truth in Labeling.

4 posted on 05/26/2022 11:06:30 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: RandFan
I checked a list of mass-shootings in the US in 2022, and there were 202, with 221 fatalities and 790 injuries. As far as I could tell, only ONE (Buffalo) could be linked to "white-supremacy," but even that is debatable.

Sixty-two (30%) of the mass shootings were related to bars, nightclubs, parties, concerts, sporting events, or festivals. Many were directly or indirectly related to gangs and drug trafficking. A disproportionate number seemed to involve blacks, as is the case with most violent crime.

Looking at the data, late night partying and drinking in urban neighborhoods seems a far greater threat to public safety than "white-supremacy," but try to tell that to a freak like Chuck Schumer. He is using the single exception to the norm as his rallying cry to fight a problem that is far more a problem of his own constituents.
5 posted on 05/26/2022 11:11:08 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: RandFan

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) was the only Republican to vote for it.


My bio says Country First. I didn’t say which country. - Kinzinger

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger


6 posted on 05/26/2022 11:11:30 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Its All Over Except ...
"Is Schumer concerned about this?"

No, because he is a dishonest, lying fraud.
7 posted on 05/26/2022 11:12:33 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: RandFan

I agree. Call it what it really is. Democrat terrorism .. by mentally defective leftists.


8 posted on 05/26/2022 11:15:14 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: RandFan

Oh please...It was a mass murder. Happens every weekend in Chicago.


9 posted on 05/26/2022 11:17:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Steve_Seattle

And as usual they’re blaming the Republicans. This song and dance is getting so freaking old. We are ripe for Civil War 2 ...Don’t know how it would take place but all this crap happening in DC is tearing this nation apart. Liberalism is a cancer and the rats flaunt it to full capacity. RUSSIA PLEASE NUKE DC! The American people would appreciate it...deeply!


10 posted on 05/26/2022 11:17:20 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Just goes to show how divided the nation is and that the left thinks all Whites are White supremacists.

It tells me that half the nation has mental illness.

11 posted on 05/26/2022 11:18:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: RandFan

Yeah, it was a Criminalize any Opposition to ‘Rat Oligarchs bill.


12 posted on 05/26/2022 11:20:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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A lot of school board meetings would be raided by this new task force.....if it were allowed to pass. Republican caucuses across the country would not be safe, especially Trump rallies.


13 posted on 05/26/2022 11:22:03 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Doesn’t matter. No means later, next time. Without question it’s coming. In practice it’s here now, just not codified with extra fun stuff tossed in.


14 posted on 05/26/2022 11:23:31 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Navy Patriot
"We need Truth in Labeling."

AMEN!

15 posted on 05/26/2022 11:24:27 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: RandFan

So now we have another one to contend with in Texas.


16 posted on 05/26/2022 11:24:27 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: RandFan

What is the FBI for? They want another agency? Why?


17 posted on 05/26/2022 11:25:27 AM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: RandFan
"I'm Gonna Get Me a Shotgun and Kill All the Whities I see..."

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x6ck8


18 posted on 05/26/2022 11:25:40 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: RandFan

So they found their nuts for a day?


19 posted on 05/26/2022 11:30:44 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: RandFan

Dems always want the issue and never want a solution that works…


20 posted on 05/26/2022 11:33:34 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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