Congress misses Biden's police reform deadline, but Cory Booker says "a lot of progress was made" over weekend
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Senator Cory Booker said on Tuesday he is "very hopeful" about the bipartisan effort to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, despite lawmakers failing to meet President Joe Biden's May 25 deadline for the legislation.
"We worked through the weekend, a lot of progress was made, and I'm very hopeful. We still have a ways to go, but I'm hoping it's a matter of weeks, not months," Booker said on CBSN.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.