The House voted along party lines Wednesday to pass the bill, a Democrat-backed bill that attempts to enact sweeping police reform after Floyd’s death throughout an encounter with police in Minneapolis last May.
Rep. Lance Gooden took to Twitter soon after the vote to announce the error and to alert supporters that he "changed the official record to reflect my opposition to the partisan George Floyd Policing Act."
The Hill was the first to report on the Twitter post.
"I have arguably the most conservative/America First voting record in Congress!" he tweeted later. "Of course I wouldn’t support the radical left’s, Anti-Police Act. I have changed the official record to reflect my opposition!"
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The wide-ranging bill would change standards for police tactics and conduct at the federal level. Prominent measures involve a federal ban on no-knock warrants and chokeholds, boundaries on qualified immunity guarding police against civil lawsuits, a framework to prevent racial profiling and the establishment of a national registry on allegations of police misconduct.
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The White House signaled its backing for the bill’s passage in a statement earlier this week.
"To make our communities safer, we must begin by rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the people they are entrusted to serve and protect," the White House said in a statement. "We cannot rebuild that trust if we do not hold police officers accountable for abuses of power and tackle systemic misconduct – and systemic racism – in police departments. "
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Calls for police reform provoked extreme partisan debate in recent months. Democrats and prominent civil rights groups claim the overhaul is needed to combat systemic racism and prevent future police-involved deaths.
GOP critics, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, have declared that removing the liability shield would threaten public safety and make it extremely hard to recruit.
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The bill now advances for further consideration in the Senate, where it will probably face severe opposition from GOP lawmakers. Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted it would be difficult to pass the bill in the upper chamber.
"What the Senate will do is what the Senate will do, but we will send over the bill that has the balance that we have in it," Pelosi told reporters at the time.
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