In the wake of two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead, the Senate's leading Republican is grappling with how his party can respond to a changing moment in American politics on guns.
In the wake of two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead, the Senate's leading Republican -- a 35-year public servant who has earned a reputation as being hardened to the criticisms of Democrats and who relishes stopping House legislation at the Senate's edge -- is grappling with how his party can respond to a changing moment in American politics on guns.
"I hear him saying that he wants to find something meaningful, but his job is to run a process that gets to something meaningful and can get to an end product. His job is not to lead a process that leads to a bunch of grandstanding and then nothing."A political tactician, McConnell is not one to get ahead of his conference especially when members are spread across the country on recess for the month of August.
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