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On March 14, 2013, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill, though it was not expected to clear the full Senate or the House. [31] [32] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to leave the proposed ban out of the broader gun control bill, saying that it was unlikely to win the 60 votes it needed in the 100-member chamber and that it ...
On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, into the U.S. Senate. [19] [20] The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [21]
After two deadly mass shootings in May 2022—the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York and the Uvalde school shooting—the Democratic-majority House (on a near party-line vote) passed a package of gun-control bills, including a safe storage bill and bills to increase in the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, ban ...
Tennesseans from east to west want sensible gun laws, no matter their age, ethnicity or party affiliation.
The entire 14-hour and 50-minute filibuster, as broadcast by C-SPAN. On June 15, 2016, in the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate, promising to hold the floor "for as long as I can" or until Congress acts on gun control legislation.
Sep. 18—Gun control and the Jan. 6, 2021, storm on the U.S. Capitol spurred arguments Wednesday between two men vying to become Washington's next top lawyer. Pasco Mayor Pete Serrano and former ...
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention was an office of the White House tasked with carrying out the president's executive orders on gun violence prevention. The office was first announced by President Joe Biden on September 21, 2023, with Vice President Kamala Harris being announced as the supervisor of the office, long time Biden staffer Stefanie Feldman as director, and gun ...
Here’s what to know about the candidates vying to be the next Senate Republican majority leader. ... were “inexcusable” and voted to certify the results of the 2020 election. “South Dakota ...