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Even so, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) said he would not allow the bill to pass more quickly, dampening the Democratic majority’s enthusiasm for allowing the GOP to have more amendment votes. The Senate has considered 22 amendments to the bill thus far, but attempts to vote on two dozen more fell apart on Thursday night after Hagerty refused to expedite the bill as a condition of the deal.
“Democrats are ready and willing to vote on additional amendments to the bill before moving to final passage. … That will require the cooperation of our Republican colleagues. I hope they will cooperate so we can move more quickly. Otherwise we’ll proceed by the book and finish the bill,” Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. That would set up a final passage vote later this week, likely on Tuesday.
Once the bill is done, its future is uncertain in the House. Democratic moderates are already pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take the legislation up immediately, though Pelosi and many progressives want to wait until a Democratic-only social spending bill also passes the Senate. That bill cannot be filibustered by Senate Republicans in the evenly split chamber.
Pelosi and Schumer have devised a two-track process to enact as much of Biden’s domestic agenda as possible, pledging that the bipartisan infrastructure bill will only advance if it is married to the party-line legislation that will spend as much as $3.5 trillion on climate change action, paid leave policies and health care expansion.
The Senate will immediately proceed to a budget setting up that massive bill on filibuster-proof ground after it completes its work on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Schumer is also considering forcing votes on more elections legislation after Democrats’ sweeping overhaul plan failed in June.
And senators are still trying to tie up loose ends on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, including narrowing new cryptocurrency reporting requirements that partly finance the new spending on roads, bridges and broadband. Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) are also trying to loosen restrictions on coronavirus aid money so that states and cities can spend it on infrastructure.
Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/08/biden-infrastructure-bill-senate-502785
An image from body camera footage shows the moments before a man allegedly opened fire on police during traffic stop, killing one cop and seriously wounding her partner before a third officer returned fire.
The traffic stop which led to Officer Ella French, 29, shot dead was also caught on grainy surveillance footage, WLS-TV reported.
The haunting still from the bodycam footage shows Eric Morgan, 22, sitting in the driver’s seat as a cop looks into the car through the driver’s side window moments before his younger brother Emonte Morgan allegedly fires at the officers.
Emonte, also named as ‘Monty’ in court is since said to have confessed to shooting at the cops in a recorded statement.
Separate surveillance footage since shared shows police pull over the Morgan brothers, and a female passenger, during a routine traffic stop on Saturday night.
Emonte then allegedly shot at the officers before one of the suspects was seen on video running from the scene as local residents chased them down.
Emonte Morgan, left, has been charged after he allegedly shot dead Chicago police officer Ella French, right, on Saturday
Emonte’s older brother Eric Morgan, pictured, was driving the car during a routine traffic stop
Eric Morgan is pictured during the traffic stop in the new body worn camera footage
The new footage shows the moments before Emonte Morgan allegedly fired at the officers
The video footage revelations were made as French’s heartbreaking final radio call to dispatchers was also published by Irish Angel – a nonprofit group founded to support law enforcement officers and their families.
During the radio call, an unidentified voice tells the dispatcher: ‘Officer down.’
This dispatcher then tells others to stay off the radio air while announcing that French had been shot at the intersection of 63rd Street and Bell Avenue.
A dispatcher informs police that the suspect was wearing a blue Chicago Cubs shirt – and the unidentified voice tells her to call for two ambulances.
The bond hearing was held for the Morgan brothers on Tuesday before Cook County Judge Arthur Willis – though Emonte did not attend because he remains hospitalized after a third officer returned fire.
Prosecutors said Emonte admitted to investigators that he pulled his handgun out of his waistband and opened fire.
Willis ordered Emonte held without bond on charges of first-degree murder of a peace officer, attempted murder of two other officers, unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
‘They didn’t have their weapons drawn, they weren’t firing on him, and callously (Emonte) shoots and kills one, and the other is in critical condition,’ the judge said.
Separate surveillance footage shows police pull over the Morgan brothers, and a female passenger
The SUV was pulled over during a routine traffic stop on Saturday night
Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said cops had stopped the SUV because of expired plates.
The brothers initially followed officers’ instructions, handing over the vehicle’s keys and getting out of the SUV. But the situation escalated after Emonte refused to set down a drink and cellphone he was holding, Murphy said.
‘He began physically jerking his arms away from the officers,’ Murphy said.
Footage from police body cameras shows Emonte Morgan had a handgun tucked into his waistband, Murphy said.
As he struggled with police, he began firing several shots, striking the French once in the head and a 39-year-old officer, whose name has not been released, in the right eye, right shoulder and in his brain.
One of the suspects was seen on video running from the scene as local residents chased them down
Police are seen after the shooting death of officer Ella French
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown gives an update and answers questions during a press conference at the Chicago Police Headquarters on Sunday
Cops are seen mourning the shooting death of Ella French in images posted to Twitter
Both officers fell to the ground face up, their body cameras still recording, Murphy said. At one point, Morgan could be seen stepping over the 39-year-old wounded officer before stepping out of view.
In the meantime, Eric Morgan had run off during the struggle, and the third officer had chased after him, Murphy said. When that officer heard gunshots, he ran back and exchanged gunfire with Monty Morgan before falling to the ground.
Eric Morgan also ran back, and his brother then handed the gun to him, according to court documents. The third officer got back up and shot at Monty Morgan again, hitting him in the abdomen.
French is pictured before her death with her fellow officers
Murphy said Monty Morgan gave a statement on video in which he admitted to drinking, having a gun and opening fire on two officers. An initial court appearance is set for Aug. 16.
At a separate bond hearing on Tuesday afternoon, a judge ordered Eric Morgan held without bond.
Eric Morgan, who authorities say was captured in a yard where he had run to dump his brother’s gun, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and obstruction of justice.
A third man, Jamel Danzy, 29, of Indiana, is charged with supplying the semiautomatic handgun used in the shooting.
Danzy is accused of buying the weapon from a licensed gun dealer in Hammond, Indiana, in March and provided it to an Illinois resident who he knew could neither buy nor possess guns because of a felony conviction.
French was the first Chicago police officer to die from a gunshot in the line of duty in nearly three years.
Source Article from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881533/Haunting-images-final-moments-murdered-Chicago-cop-Ella-French-deadly-traffic-stop.html