Pelosi says Senate remains hurdle in passing gun bill after Buffalo shooting
by Mychael Schnell - 05/15/22 10:17 AM ET
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said the Senate remains a hurdle in passing gun legislation after a gunman opened fire in New York one day earlier, killing 10 people and injuring three others.
Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if she, President Biden and other Democrats should make gun measures a bigger priority, Pelosi said “it is a huge priority for us, and it has been a huge priority for Joe Biden.”
“But the fact is the 60-vote majority in the Senate is an obstacle to doing any, many good things, unfortunately, and again, we are not going away until the job is done,” Pelosi said.
“We’ve said it over and over again to the families of Newtown, the Florida families, the Pulse families. It’s not just though, the main of, you know, these mass murders which are horrible, they’re high-profile. It’s what happens every single night across the country, in our cities and other places in our country,” she added.
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