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Eleventh-Hour Effort to Press McConnell to Allow a Criminal Justice Vote

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lead author of a bipartisan criminal justice bill, speaks to reporters on his way to the Senate floor on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Influential Republican senators, working in concert with the White House, are making a last-ditch effort to pressure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other party leaders to take up the legislation at risk of being shunted aside in the rush to complete other business before Congress adjourns. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times) .