Pence, Kushner head to Capitol for criminal justice push

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are visiting Capitol Hill as lawmakers from both major political parties push Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to hold a vote on a rewrite of the nation’s criminal justice sentencing laws.
A rare bipartisan coalition is pushing for the criminal justice bill. The legislation would revise 1980s and ’90s-era federal “tough on crime” laws by boosting rehabilit