Following a new deadly shootout, Democratic leaders urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) To take action to address the "epidemic of gun violence" in the United States. by passing a bill reinforcing the background check federal firearms purchases.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Saturday asked McConnell to act on HR 8 , also known as the 2019 Bipartisan Background Verification Act. This bill, loopholes that allowed the private or online sale of firearms and the sale at exposures without background checks, was adopted by the House controlled by the Democrats in February.
McConnell has faced increasing pressure from Democratic and other lawmakers to bring the bill to the Senate, but he has not done so yet.
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US Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Left, spoke Thursday with the Managing Director of United States Enrichment Corp., Howard Pulley, during a media visit to the factory enrichment of Paducah uranium gas diffusion located in the central control facility (C-300) of the plant. , August 12, 1999, near Paducah, Kentucky. A sealed lawsuit filed in June by the Natural Resource Defense Board and three factory employees alleges that thousands of unsuspecting workers have been exposed to dust containing plutonium and other radioactive metals.
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Senator Mitch McConnell (left) discusses Republican tax cuts under the supervision of Senator Patrick Moynihan during a meeting with the NBC press on August 1, 1999 in Washington, DC.
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Senator Christopher Dodd, on the left, and Senator Mitch McConnell, hit the "first nails" in a piece of wood at a nailing ceremony on December 6, 2000, in Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The two senators participated in the ceremony marking the beginning of the construction of the inaugural platform of 2001 on the terrace of the western front of the American Capitol.
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Mitch McConnell R-Ky. organizes a press conference on the reform of campaign financing.
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On January 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush appoints 13 cabinet members at a ceremony in the President's Room in Washington. From left to right, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, (R-Ms), Vice-President Richard Cheney, Senator Strom Thurmond, (R-SC), and Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert (R-II).
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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Addresses reporters after a press conference on his campaign finance bill.
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Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduces his wife, Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor, on the third day of the Republican National Convention in New York on September 1, 2004.
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Meaning. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, left, speaks with Senator Bill Frist, R-Tenn., After the Senate lunches.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) (C) and Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) smile at a press conference at Capitol Hill in Washington on July 28, 2005.
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The leader of the minority in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C), accompanied by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (LR), Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senator John Barrasso (R -WY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), speak to reporters of the Senate's adoption of the US Debt Cap Debt Legislation in Washington On August 2, 2011, Congress has identified the specter of a defaults deficit reduction measures announced Tuesday, but the shadow lingered on a possible degrading degradation of the US credit rating of the first order.
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On December 17, 2011, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) visits his Capitol office in Washington. The US Senate on Saturday passed a $ 915-billion bill to fund most federal agency activities until next September and to avoid government closures.
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New Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (C) (R-TN) Attends Meeting with Republican Leaders, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (left) and Conference Chair GOP, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) at Capitol. Hill January 6, 2003 in Washington, DC. Frist was elected majority leader by his colleagues when former majority leader, Trent Lott, resigned last month.
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Senators Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Norm Coleman, R-Min., Speaking during a press conference on the withdrawal of Miguel A. Estrada from his appointment to the position of judge the US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit. From CQA Today: In many press conferences and speeches during the day, Republicans have blamed the Democrats for "obstructing" the nominations of Estrada and other contenders for the judiciary; most Democrats said that they were blocking an upward or downward vote on this candidacy as part of their offer for memos and other working papers dating back to the Estrada era in the office of the Solicitor General of the Clinton Administration.
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The leader of the Senate minority, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), talks about the economic stimulus package of February 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. Republicans are critical of the Democrats' economic stimulus package of nearly $ 1 trillion and are demanding changes before the Senate votes at the end of the week.
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US Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, is sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney (right) while his wife, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, holds the Bible during a ceremony. swearing in the US Capitol on January 6, 2009 in Washington.
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US Vice President Mike Pence (right) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) waving a wave before heading to their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA November 30, 2016.
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US House Minority Leader John Boehner (left), R-OH, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) address the press in the United States. outside the West Wing after meeting with President Barack Obama on January 23, 2009 at the White House in Washington. , DC.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (C) bids farewell to journalists after a press conference with Senator Th (Th) John Thune (R-SD), Senator John Barrasso (R0WY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R- TX) after the weekly luncheon on the Politics led by the Senate Republican Caucus at the US Capitol on May 8, 2012 in Washington, DC. Although the Senate voted against the opening debate on a bill to keep interest rates on Stafford's federal loans to double on July 1, 2012 from 3.4% to 6.8% McConnell said the GOP and Democrats agreed to keep rates low, but how to pay for it.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Goes to the Senate dinners on Capitol Hill.
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From left to right, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., And President John Boehner of R-Ohio, attend at a ceremony to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. of 1964, in the Capitol Rotunda, June 24, 2014.
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The leader of the Senate minority, Mitch McConnell, testifies alongside the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (unrepresented) at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "The Examination of a constitutional amendment aimed at restoring democracy in the American people ", devoted to the financing of the electoral campaign on Tuesday 3 June 2014.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talks about the election of Donald Trump in the US presidential election in Washington, DC on November 9, 2016.
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The majority leader "should mention the HR 8 the week the Congress returns," said Schumer in a tweet of Saturday night, hours after the passage of an armed man in western Texas, causing several deaths and at least 21 injuries. Three officers were among those injured, the police said. A 17-month-old baby was also injured during the attack.
"Enough, that's enough," Pelosi said later in a statement. "Every day, the epidemic of gun violence inflicts a devastating toll on communities across the country, forcing far too many people to bear the brunt of grief and tragedy."
"The Republican Senate must put an end to its filibuster and adopt the common sense, the bill of violence prevention by firearms adopted by the House and bipartisan that the country demands," she added.
The Congress will meet again on 9 September after the summer holidays.
Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and all those injured during the shooting in Odessa & Midland, TX.
Thanks to the first responders who risked their lives to end the threat.@senatemajldr should bring back H.R. 8 the week back from Congress. We must #endgunviolence.
Other Democratic legislators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, also invited McConnell to do more.
"America has come to wait for you," tweeted Warren, a presidential candidate from 2020.
Representative Katie Porter (D-Calif.) Appealed to McConnell to move to HR 8 and HR 1112, another gun control bill passed by the House in February that would require the salesperson to go out of business. weapons to wait 10 days before receiving news from federal authorities. on verifying the background of a potential buyer before proceeding to the sale of firearms.
Time is up, @SenateMajLdr. Let's vote on gun safety legislation now. Every day you wait, other tragedies occur.
Do something, Senator McConnell. America has finished waiting.
I think tonight of those who lost their lives in Odessa and Midland and the loved ones they left behind. It is perfectly clear that we must take steps to reduce gun violence in Canada.@senatemajldr allowing votes on HR8 and HR1112 would be a good start.
Another horrible mass shot in Texas. I have a broken heart for the victims of Odessa and Midland and their families.
How many times will the Senate do nothing? It is time to end our epidemic of armed violence. @senatemajldr, do you want to defend families and let the Senate vote?
Not a look of #MassacreMitch since #OdessaS Shooting. Texas is crying. America is crying. McConnell is silent. Mitch McConnell's legislative misconduct led to an absolute failure in the pursuit of #GunReform. Trump, McConnell and the GOP seize money from the gun lobby and run, run, run.
