House passes a bill aimed at combating violent extremism in the wake of the Buffalo mass shooting. Its fate in the Senate is uncertain.
The vote comes in the wake of a horrific mass shooting over the weekend at a supermarket in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, that killed 10 people and wounded three others. The Justice Department is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and"an act of racially-motivated violent extremism."The bill passed -- the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 -- will next go to the Senate for consideration, where its fate is uncertain.
House Democratic leaders had planned to bring an earlier version of the bill to the floor in April, but the effort was derailed after progressive members objected to the measure, which they said could be used to target civil rights activists or left-leaning groups. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he believes those issues have been resolved.
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