Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism bill

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 Senate Republicans block domestic terrorism bill
by Alexander Bolton - 05/26/22 12:50 PM ET

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. 

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[Kamaji]

Good, because those offices would not have been used to go after potential shooters, but - as we have already clearly seen - after aggrieved parents and other dissidents from the left's political agenda.

[GtHawk]

Good, because those offices would not have been used to go after potential shooters, but - as we have already clearly seen - after aggrieved parents and other dissidents from the left's political agenda.

Also Schumer is disgusting because he doesn't seem to consider the mass murders by Blacks to be acts of domestic terrorism, not that if he mentioned them it would have made this bill any less abhorrent. We already have agencies whose job is supposed to be looking for terrorists both foreign and domestic why not do something about them not doing their jobs instead of trying to create more that are really only to go after political opponents?