Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Tuesday blasted a Senate criminal justice reform bill as an attempt to go easy on criminals, remarks that are the latest sign of the problems the Senate is having moving the bill.

On the Senate floor, Cotton called the bill a “massive social experiment in criminal leniency” and introduced his own bill to study the recidivism rates of criminals who are released early.

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