The move will test whether Senate leaders in either party are actively working to pass a deal, or if they are calculating that, in advance of the November election, their parties are better served by leaving the status quo intact.
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And Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican who has emerged as one of the sharpest critics of Donald Trump, threw some heat back at the Democrats Monday night.
A measure proposed by Connecticut Sen.
It remained uncertain Tuesday whether leaders would allow a vote on Collins’ plan, and whether it could pass.
Even as the measure gains backers, however, it faces a tough climb. “You get somebody that’s in a hard situation, like the senator from New Hampshire, the junior senator from New Hampshire, she’s doing everything but yoga on the Senate floor to try to justify what she’s doing”, Sen.
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GOP leaders are open to allowing a vote on the Collins measure, though clearing the Senate’s 60-vote threshold will be hard with the election.
It was too soon to tell if President Barack Obama would support the Collins bill.
The second Republican proposal aimed to improve the background check system.
The bill’s defeat happened Monday. A bill introduced without a bipartisan approach is doomed to fail, she said, as has been the case whenever the contentious issue of gun control has come before lawmakers. “We’re going to put together a good faith proposal”.
It just makes absolutely no sense. Republican Senators Johnny Isakson and David Perdue also voted for the GOP measures.
Incumbent Rob Portman is likely to be questioned about his votes in a conference call planned Tuesday with OH reporters.
“Republicans are just about as phony as anyone can be”.
Ohio’s Republican U.S. senator and his Democratic challenger are at odds over gun control legislation that failed this week. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Bill Nelson of Florida. Collins told reporters she revised her proposal at their behest. The FBI would be notified if someone who’s been on the broader terrorist watch list in the past five years buys a gun, but could not stop the purchase.
Also rejected was a rival proposal sponsored by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) that would have allowed the US Attorney General to block a gun sale to someone on the terrorist list, but only after going to court to obtain permission. It would not bar the suspect from making the purchase.
That’s not to say there’s no talk of bi-partisan collaboration. Democrats rejected both GOP measures. Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said. Susan Collins, R-Maine, raises hopes of a bipartisan compromise since it would involve a significantly smaller group of potential gun buyers than those covered in the failed amendments. That provision presumably would have alerted the FBI to Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter who had been on the list for 10 months between 2013 and 2014 while under FBI investigation. The other Republican proposal would’ve delayed gun sales to people on a terror watch list.
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It is really getting to the point that there isn’t much to comment on about Republican devotion to the National Rifle Association.
