A bipartisan antisemitism bill approved overwhelmingly in the House is going nowhere fast in the Senate.
The New York Democrat noted there wereto fast-track the bill and said leaders were still searching for options that would avoid eating up large amounts of floor time to run out the procedural clock.
The Senate is focused this week on meeting a Friday deadline for a must-pass federal aviation bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration for another five years. However, it has faced opposition from Republicans and Democrats in the Senate over free speech concerns that it could allow language critical of Israel to be too easily considered antisemitic.
With anti-Israel demonstrations at college campuses, some of which turned violent and antisemitic, no longer front-page news as law enforcement has largely clamped down on protesters, the Senate faces diminished political pressure to act urgently.
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