After multiple deadly mass shootings in the past week, Democratic leaders are calling for Majority Leader McConnell to cancel Senate's recess and hold vote on bill that would create new background check requirements; the bill passed the House in February.
, would create new background check requirements for gun transfers between unlicensed individuals. It passed the Democrat-controlled House in February 240-190, with two members not voting.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is running as a Democrat in the 2020 election, also called on McConnell to bring the Senate back into session. "Mitch McConnell should bring the Senate back into session immediately to pass HR 8, the gun safety bill that has already passed the House. That's a first step to addressing our serious gun violence epidemic," Sanders tweeted.
Mitch McConnell should bring the Senate back into session immediately to pass HR 8, the gun safety bill that has already passed the House. That's a first step to addressing our serious gun violence epidemic."I hope very much that Mitch McConnell will have the courage to bring us back to Washington and put together legislation which has the wide support of the American people," he told CNN on Sunday."This is not radical stuff.""Thoughts and prayers are not enough.
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