The US Senate is back in session After his latest recess today and full attention will be given to a bipartisan group of senators who are increasing confidence that a package gun control measures Can go ahead and make it a law.
Connecticut Democrats Chris Murphy Love the key words. just days earlier, less than a week after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary Schools in UvaldeTexas that killed 19 young children and two teachers, he talked “An opportunity to pass on something important right now”.
Murphy Tomorrow couple: “The chances of success are better than ever. But I think the consequences of failure are more important than ever for our entire democracy.
Everytown and Moms Demand are two connected groups originally started by the city’s mayors, backed by then-New York Chief Mike Bloomberg, campaigning for gun safety laws. Photograph: Jay Scott Applewhite / AP
Murphy believes Measures passed in Florida The aftermath of the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland could attract Republican support and provide a workable template for action in Congress.
Chris Murphy of Connecticut, speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, said he was optimistic that the recent mass shootings Buffalo, New YorkAnd Uvalde, TexasThat could ultimately indicate substantial bipartisan support for legislation that has previously proved elusive.
Florida, a Republican-controlled state, took swift action after the killings of 17 students and employees. Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School In February 2018, passing a red flag law and raising the age requirement to purchase firearms from 18 to 21, among other steps. The Parkland Gunman was 19 years old.
in that Address to the nation last week, Joe Biden Called for a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons and raising the age requirement if this cannot be done.
Murphy acknowledged Florida’s actions and said there is “interest in taking a look at that age range, 18 to 21” during bipartisan discussions about potential legislation led by the Republican side of Texas. John Cornyn,
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Washington intensifies bipartisan gun safety talks amid crisis of violence
Good Morning, American politics Blog readers, it’s going to be an extraordinarily busy, high-stakes week in Washington, with the constitutional rights of Americans and the democracy itself in the headlines.
What’s on the agenda here.
- The US Senate is back in session After his latest recess on the Hill today and a bipartisan group of senators are expressing confidence that a package gun control measures progress can be made, while lawmakers leading the talks warn of “significant” consequences of failure.
- talks continue between Another series of fatal shootings over the weekend followed on the heels of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, and the racist killing of black Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo.
- New measures under discussion do not include the demands of Joe Biden And Kamala Harris After the recent genocide, there is still more progress on legislative talks, which have been taking place for years, to ban assault weapons.
- US Supreme Court June is a crisis month for decisions arising in cases from the current term and more than 30 judgments to be announced, due to release the opinion today and on Thursday. The public (and the press) are not parties, matters will not be announced until the Bench speaks.
- last but not least To this briefing note: Special House committee investigating events on and around January 6, 2021 Uprising in the US Capitol by extremist supporters of the then president Donald Trump Prime time this Thursday is making final preparations for its first public hearing — and the right wing is already revealing its vengeance.