Congress was at a standstill on police reform on Wednesday after Senate Democrats successfully blocked a Republican bill they have criticized as a toothless response to police brutality. The vote was 55-45, failing to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to advance. Two Democrats, the Alabama Senator Doug Jones and the West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, along with Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, voted with Republicans to open the debate.