An unlikely pair of House members are making a push for a so-called “second chance” law for people convicted of certain low-level federal offenses
, with hopes to repeat Congress’s unexpected victory on criminal justice reform last year.
The bill has won support from what Rochester described as “strange bedfellows” — the liberal Center for American Progress and the conservative FreedomWorks.Sign Up The newly unveiled legislation resembles a push in Pennsylvania, which recently became the first in the nation with a “clean slate” law for certain nonviolent offenses — a bill that Reschenthaler helped pass as a state legislator last year.
Both lawmakers said they hopes the bill can be a rare area of common ground in the coming weeks at a time when Senate GOP leaders have flatly rejected most bills sent to them by House Democrats. Blunt Rochester said she’s spoken with House Democratic leaders, and is optimistic about a future floor vote.
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