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All 4 g-c measures FAILED in the Senate today.
Somebody will compile a list NAY Senators and how much the gun industry pays them to protect gun industry profits.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politic...on-gun-controlWhen nearly 40 Senate Democrats engaged in a 15-hour talk-a-thon to force a vote on gun control last week, only two Republicans got a word in edgewise. One of them was Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania.
“This is not rocket science,” he said.
Everyone ought to agree, he said, that terrorists should not be able to walk into a gun store and purchase guns. And everyone ought to agree that innocent, law-abiding citizens should not be denied their Second Amendment rights because they are wrongly on a terrorist watch list, he added.
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In the wake of the Orlando, Fla., mass shooting, “there’s an obvious opportunity here, guys, to work together and find a solution,” he said.
On Monday, the Senate will most likely not take that opportunity. It will vote on four competing gun measures – two from Democrats and two from Republicans – that deal with terrorists and gun purchases as well as expanded background checks. None is expected to pass.
In a Congress largely sorted into two partisan camps on gun control, Senator Toomey is unusual. After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., he teamed up with Sen. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia on a bill that expanded background checks to gun shows and online sales. It failed. Twice.
Then last week, he introduced what he describes as a compromise bill to prevent terrorists from buying guns. Democrats blasted it as bersome and politically self-serving as Toomey faces a tough reelection battle. Republicans did little more than sniff at it. It’s not scheduled among the competing gun measures up for a vote Monday.
It's an election year and I guess its more important to keep gun sales up and the opposition without anything to use for campaigning. Nobody did after the 2008 crash so I guess I shouldn't be surprised but this is what it feels like to be disenfranchised.
All 4 g-c measures FAILED in the Senate today.
Somebody will compile a list NAY Senators and how much the gun industry pays them to protect gun industry profits.
The point of the article is that the bipartisan effort was ignored. If you want something done then do it yourself, boutox.
Like I said if you want something done then do it yourself. No one is going to do for you, boutox, you made your own bed now sleep in it.
Senate fails at passing gun control again. See how much your senator gets from gun rights groups.
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/20/1198242...orm-impossible
wtf is the NRA spending all its membership money on cause it ain't Senators...
Congesspeople are cheap. A few $K is all is takes.
These 23 GOP Senators Voted Against Background Checks.
the 56 senators who voted against expanding background checks (and 53 who voted against allowing the attorney general to stop the sale of a firearm to a suspected terrorist) have received a combined total of roughly $36 million from the National Rifle Association.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/21/3790646/nra-money-senate/
Congress is 100% corrupt with influence peddling, quid-pro-quo "my Congressional vote is for sale", and cheap.
Clinton gets money from terriost countries
Colbert rips NRA-worshiping Senate: My dog accomplished more when it rolled over and licked its nuts
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/colb...e+Raw+Story%29
Come on, Stephen, you can train a dog with rewards, just like Senators are trained with $36M from the gun industry to do tricks.
If it is required to have background checks for the 2nd amendment, why not extend it to the first, or others?These 23 GOP Senators Voted Against Background Checks.
the 56 senators who voted against expanding background checks (and 53 who voted against allowing the attorney general to stop the sale of a firearm to a suspected terrorist) have received a combined total of roughly $36 million from the National Rifle Association.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/21/3790646/nra-money-senate/
Congress is 100% corrupt with influence peddling, quid-pro-quo "my Congressional vote is for sale", and cheap.
Slippery slope if you ask me.
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