Senate majority leader Charles Schumer
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“The Senate is going to debate and address the epidemic of armed violence in this country,” Schumer said during a plenary speech.
“We have a lot of work to do. I have already pledged to bring universal background verification legislation to the Senate floor. There is a hearing today on the Senate Judiciary Committee under the chairmanship. [Dick] Durbin’s leadership must examine several common sense proposals, ”he added.
The House passed legislation this month to expand background checks on weapons, and Schumer promised that he would bring him to the floor. But it faces a rise in the Senate where, unless Democrats reject the obstruction, it would take 60 votes to pass.
Despite bipartisan outrage after the shootings, Congress has always failed to pass legislation.
The then Republican-controlled Senate initially opened the door to tackling gun reforms in 2019, following shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.
So, leader of the majority Mitch McConnell
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“Background checks and red flags are likely to lead the discussion,” he told a Kentucky radio station.
But the debate ended after talks between senators and the attorney general William Barr
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The Democratic-controlled Senate also failed to pass the background check legislation in 2013. Four Republicans voted in favor of the bill at the time, but four red-state Democrats broke through the party hierarchy to oppose it.
Schumer signaled on Tuesday that he would take a different course, despite facing a difficult escalation to get a bill passed.
“This Senate will be different,” he said.