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 – U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) – the Ranking Member of House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties – today delivered the following remarks ahead of voting against House Democrats’ partisan policing legislation. The bill, H.R. 7120, George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020, was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee without any Republican amendments and input.  

Congressman Johnson gave the following remarks as delivered:

“We all agreed on the core reform issues. We talked a lot about transparency, and improving training, and improving termination ability for those rare individuals who serve in law enforcement and violate the law and the legitimacy that upholds the character of our legal system. We could have built consensus around those and other key ideas to restore faith in our institutions and build trust in our communities.

“But unfortunately, just 10-days after introduction, the Majority marked up the final version that we are voting on today without any opportunity for input from Republican members. They blocked us out of the room. Then they denied us, as our Ranking Member Jim Jordan just said, they denied us a dozen amendments - good faith amendments that we brought to that process. What a tragedy that is.”

You can watch his full remarks here.