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↵↵The rule came under threat partly because of a push from farm-state Republicans who were advocating for a provision allowing year-round sales of gasoline containing a higher percentage of corn-derived
The GOP’s sales pitch faces another hurdle as well: Trump’s own inability to stay on topic. That was evident in Pennsylvania, as our colleague John T. Bennett reports.
Proponents say the bill could limit promotion of self-harm or disordered eating and reduce online drug sales. Despite intense lobbying, it was not included in the omnibus.
For example, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal and others are pushing a draft bill that would temporarily halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
But it only got to 54 votes in 2013, well short of the 60 needed to break a legislative filibuster.
And it would require the Interior Department to hold offshore wind lease sales in federal waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
“Pushing through legislation of this magnitude on a partisan basis may garner short-term benefits, but will inevitably only exacerbate the distrust that millions of Americans harbor against the U.S. government
House Democrats last week again passed their preferred background checks bill, which would close those same loopholes but go further in requiring background checks for private, person-to-person sales
show loophole” that Democrats say allows sales to felons, domestic abusers or others who are prohibited from owning firearms.
The report also found that background checks “are complicated by statutory requirements, including short data purge windows, and increased Examiner requirements to complete reviews in order to verify
Manchin and Toomey led an effort in 2013, which would have required background checks on all commercial sales of guns. It fell five votes short in the Senate.
President Donald Trump may soon announce whether he will support a yet-to-be-written Senate bill expanding background checks for commercial gun sales, a bipartisan group of senators said Wednesday.
The House passed legislation in February that would close several loopholes that keep gun sales from needing to undergo federal background checks.
“If this all seems like a ruse, an attempt by the president to make it look like he’s doing something without actually moving the ball down the field, I think we’ll know that in short order,” he said
The House passed two pieces of legislation to tighten background checks for firearm sales that have stalled in the Republican-majority Senate.
“Our arms sales to Saudi Arabia demand Congressional oversight.
Dianne Feinstein issued a statement accusing the president of “holding major portions of the government hostage,” saying lawmakers and Trump “agreed on a short-term funding bill to keep the government
Gottlieb suggested several steps the manufacturers might take to curtail youth use: revising sales and marketing practices, policing retailers who sell to kids, or removing flavored products from
Democratic lawmakers back measures such as banning assault-style weapons, implementing waiting periods on gun purchases, requiring criminal background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows, and
Fetal tissue sales after abortions were discussed by abortion providers in a clandestine video in 2015, but Planned Parenthood has denied any involvement in such sales.