Mitch McConnell: criminal justice reform is a distraction from doing nothing lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/mitch-…
Incidentally, here's a useful example in how to frame an almost entirely party-line vote. This, from the WaPo, is correct: washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hous… 
The NYT's framing, conversely, is extremely misleading, especially since you need to read all the way to the 14th graf to discover that the number of Republicans in this "bipartisan" coalition is "5" nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/…
The Times article does have some useful detail about the Democratic bill, but also omits the derisive remarks of the Republican leadership of both houses (which would further make clear that "bipartisan" is not the right label here)
It would have been useful for the Post to note here that House Democrats passed a comprehensive relief bill in May and McConnell has passed nothing and has yet to even seriously negotiate, but you can't have everything
This is an excellent point: a major reason for Republican opposition is that the Dem bill expunges criminal records of people convicted for federal marijuana crimes
https://twitter.com/real_prof_baird/status/1334965377202233344
Where the Times article is better than the Post article is including more quotes from supporters of the bill, and this is a great quote:
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