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Discussion Megathread: Congress votes on GOP Tax Bill
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Discussion Megathread: Congress votes on GOP Tax Bill

Posted: 19 Dec 2017 10:27 PM PST

With congressional Republicans on the verge of approving major tax cut legislation Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) deployed a procedural tactic likely to delay its passage until Wednesday.

In order to approve legislation through the budget reconciliation process — with just 51 votes instead of the usual 60 — senators are barred from considering unrelated policy matters.

The violation of the so-called Byrd Rule forced the Senate to strip those provisions from the bill and vote on a different version than what passed the House, that vote passing after midnight on Wednesday. That, in turn, will require a second vote from the House, likely on Wednesday, before the legislation can advance to President Donald Trump's desk.

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We're the VICE News team that discovered police shoot people twice as often as previously known. Trump is walking away from reforms that could stop these shootings. Ask Us Anything!

Posted: 20 Dec 2017 08:02 AM PST

We are the VICE News team (Rob Arthur, Taylor Dolven, Keegan Hamilton, Kathleen Caulderwood, Allison McCann, and Carter Sherman) who conducted a nine month investigation and found that police shoot Americans more than twice as often as previously known. In our report, we analyzed data from the 50 largest local police departments in the United States and revealed that police in these departments shoot black people at a higher rate and shoot unarmed people far more often than any data has shown. We also found that under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump's DOJ has stopped pursuing efforts that led to dramatic drops in these types of police shootings. Cities that adopted reforms, including improved training and new policies around use of force and accountability, saw their number of police shootings decline by about 29 percent on average.

See the full investigation here: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwvv3a/shot-by-cops

Stories of those who survived here: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjba/police-shooting-survivors

And how you can use the data we collected here: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjpa/nonfatal-police-shootings-data

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