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June 15, 2016
Dems take over floor to protest Senate inaction on gun control
By Jordain Carney
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other Democrats have taken over the Senate floor to call for tougher gun control laws and specifically action on keeping people on terrorist watchlists from buying firearms.
“I’m prepared to stand on this floor and talk about the need for this body to come together on keeping terrorists away from getting guns … for, frankly, as long as I can, because I know that we can come together on this issue,” Murphy said in beginning the filibuster on Wednesday.
Murphy began speaking at about 11:20 a.m., and the filibuster was still going at 2 p.m.
Other Democrats who joined him included Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Al Franken (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Ben Cardin (Md.) and Ed Markey (Mass.).
It also won support from presumptive Democatic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
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Making us proud!
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So proud of Dems, who actually want to get things DONE.
Also, I didn’t even realize Bernie didn’t participate in the filibuster until reading it here in a different post. I’d literally given him zero thought. Hmmm, wish it could always be that way! 😉 But seriously, it’s just more proof how disingenuous he is, IMO. He went on Meet the Press over the weekend and railed about guns but wouldn’t support this? Too worried about super delegates and party platform fights I guess. Wish the the press would ask about it.
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Didn’t want to make a big deal of it above the fold and give him any importance, but for sure this disqualifies him from any say in anything the Democratic Party does from here on out. I am sure if he had signed on the others would have relieved him of having to speak much. They know he’s tired, but he didn’t even give them that chance.
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“It just didn’t work yesterday.” Was the official response from Sanders camp. No word on what exactly he was doing that was preventing him from getting back to DC though. Other than the fact it was a last minute idea.
And it was noticed by the Press he wasn’t there.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/16/why-bernie-sanders-missed-the-senate-democrats-14-hour-gun-filibuster/?client=safari#
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