Paul said The House’s bill won’t move quickly without more changes.
The House-passed anti-lynching bill won’t pass the Senate without changes, Sen. Rand Paul said on Wednesday, raising the prospect that Congress may once again fall short of confronting the abhorrent practice.
The Kentucky Republican said he is talking to authors “about how to make the bill better.” In theory, the Senate could quickly unanimously pass the House bill and send the law to President Donald Trump, but Paul’s objection means that instead the Senate would have to use several days of floor time to hold a roll call vote and pass the bill.
“If they want to pass it the easy way they have to talk to me about it,” he said.
