The White House says it’s pushing for the president’s ATF nominee. Activists say they could be doing a fair bit more.
The Department of Justice has arranged and prepared Chipman for one-on-one meetings with
Still, some advocates said it remained unclear to them, months into the confirmation fight, what the White House was doing in terms of congressional outreach. Absent a fuller court press from the White House, activists have pushed the Chipman nomination themselves. In a meeting Wednesday, Po Murray, who chairs the Newtown Action Alliance, which formed after the 2012 school shooting in Connecticut, and Guttenberg asked King to meet again with Chipman as well as more gun violence survivors.
King’s vote is all the more important because moderate Republicans, including Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, oppose Chipman’s nomination. “We thought that once we elected a gun safety president and gun safety majorities in the House and the Senate that this new federal administration ... would make gun violence prevention a top priority,” said an advocate in touch with the White House. “And they’ve done a great job on the funding initiative but I just thought that the president would use political capital just in general to pass legislation ... Somebody that's all in.
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