Democrats ramp up pressure on GOP to take up their gun control bill
by Susan Ferrechio
| September 09, 2019 11:36 AM
Congressional Democrats, back Monday from the summer recess, are urging Republicans to take up a House-passed bill to expand background checks for firearm purchases.
House and Senate Democratic leaders wrote to President Trump to insist that his “personal intervention is needed†to help usher background check legislation through the GOP-led Senate.
Democrats also planned a 3 p.m. press conference in the Capitol Monday to demand the Senate take up the measure, and they are planning a gun violence forum Tuesday “on the urgent need for Senate action†on the bill.
The three-pronged approach is aimed at pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to bring the House bill to the floor for a vote. Republicans have long been reluctant to back new gun control measures that might be rejected by the conservative base and are opposed by powerful gun lobby groups.
The NRA, for example, has warned the House-passed background check measure is too broad and that current background check laws need to be properly enforced.
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