Gun bill clears Senate hurdle as filibuster fails!
In Response To: 13 Senators
to Fillibuster Gun Rights Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Rubio, Mike Lee and more (S.649)
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Controversial gun legislation cleared a key
Senate hurdle Thursday, as lawmakers voted 68-31 to start debate on the
package which includes expanded background checks and new penalties for gun
trafficking. Senate Democrats, joined by 16 Republicans, were able to overcome an attempted filibuster by GOP senators opposed to the current bill. Those senators could still slow-walk the debate, but the Senate will eventually begin votes on amendments -- one of which is considered crucial to winning support for a final vote. Though the bill cleared a 60-vote hurdle on Thursday, supporters will likely have to corral another 60-vote majority when it comes time to call a final vote, which Democrats acknowledged is a heavy lift. The White House called Thursday's tally an "important" but "early milestone," as both sides of the issue prepare for a grueling debate. The amendment likely to be at the front of the line is one from Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., which would scale back the call for universal background checks. The plan would expand checks to gun-show and Internet sales, but exempt certain personal transactions. The National Rifle Association and other gun-rights supporters voiced concern about the new proposal, saying it still goes too far. But the plan, offered by two lawmakers who are at the conservative end of their respective parties, could help ease opposition ahead of a final vote. If the bill ultimately passes the Senate, it would still have to pass the Republican-dominated House. "The hard work starts now," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after Thursday's vote. He assured Democrats that a proposal to renew the assault weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines would get a vote as an amendment, though it was dropped from the main bill amid intense opposition. The main bill also includes a measure to increase school safety funding. Reid lost two Democrats in Thursday's vote -- Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, both lawmakers from states with a strong tradition of gun ownership. More than a dozen Republican senators for days had threatened to hold up the bill Thursday. They voiced concern that the proposal -- namely, the background checks provision -- would infringe on Second Amendment rights and impose a burden on law-abiding gun owners. They also expressed frustration that, while Manchin and Toomey touted their compromise measure, the bill on the table Thursday did not yet include that. Rather, it included a stricter background checks provision. "Because the background-check measure is the centerpiece of this legislation it is critical that we know what is in the bill before we vote on it," Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Ted Cruz, R-Texas; and Mike Lee, R-Utah, said in a statement. "The American people expect more and deserve better." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/11/gun-bill-clears-senate-hurdle-as-filibuster-falls-short/#ixzz2QCLveCHj |
3 comments:
LITTLE DO THESE AHOS KNOW THAT THEIR LITTLE WORLD OF FRAUD,CORRUPTION, MURDER, THEFT ETC.....IS COMING TO A SCREECHING HALT. I WANT TO SEE THEM HANGING HIGH FROM AN OAK TREE....
yes Sir.
lets all be scare slaves trying to stay alive, like women with no concept of what courage is, that is to put ones life on the line to protect the family unit. they only know how to enforce thier will of control on the brave working class men. somehow cowards talk shit as if there is someone is going to save them from the risk of losing thier own life to demand justice, and fairness, so kind of young movie hero but not them.
i did not imply you, my brave brother. i am sick of the women and cowards talking sh**t tuff talk,and yet are nothing more than the sheep who whisper their opinions hopeing to have the hero to protect them. they should learn to shut up, and stop trying to demand the guns to be banned to the working people so that the so called goverment heros can """protect them from the bullies, with the excuse of its for the children protection brainwashing""". weapons being taking from the working class people(swords, hunting arrows, spears, guns, rifles, etc.""" has never worked for any justice for all of mankind thu out mankinds history only to turn the population into slaves for the few who can destroy the other righous outgunned leaders and its people it trys to govern. the roman empire era is a very good example, so is hitler. among this nations many of the working class of rome go hungry while the roman elite got to be fat kings and the selected elite with huge homes and land to show off thier greatness of IQ, at the expense of the romans working class who have to put thier lives on the line, so as being the only way they can to be able to feed thier family unit and not slarve, while their women enforced this logic, and still not risk thier lifes on the line, only the men.
Ditto
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