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tweeted by, David Ford ?@ItsDavidFord 21m
#BREAKING: @GStephanopoulos reports Senate deal reached on background checks. @JeffZeleny reports announcement coming at 11am Senate presser
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Jesse Rodriguez ?@JesseRodriguez 3m
From NBC's @kasie: Sources close to negotiations say senators have reached a deal on background checks; news conf at 11amET
Taegan Goddard @politicalwire
Deal reached on background checks for gun purchases http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/09/deal_reached_on_background_checks.html
Zeke Miller ?@ZekeJMiller 6m
RT @GStephanopoulos: Senate aide says Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey have reached deal to expand background checks. more coming up on @GMA.
Greg Sargent ?@ThePlumLineGS 3m
By my latest count, 10 GOP Senators have now said they will vote to move to debate on guns http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/09/is-gop-filibuster-of-gun-bill-collapsing/
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)one wave out of the many til the war is over.
with complete and ultimate victory against the NRA and guns and bullets in the hands of private people.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)This is just the gang of eight. I predict total gridlock on this issue, if not in the full Senate, then by the time the bill makes it over to the House. At this point, it's just the various factions trying to look like they're appealing to their own constituencies, rather than actually trying to put together a law.
KM0201
(23 posts)While I'm all for an up/down vote (I actually prefer it, because then I know where my reps stand).. if by some miracle this gets out of the Senate (I don't believe it will)... it will probably not even get a hearing in the House.
It's just to close unfortunately... Rural/Southern Democrats unlikely to go along with it, no matter what "polls" say.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)____ As of now, seven Republican Senators have now confirmed that they oppose the hard right bloc and will support moving to debate. They are: John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Tom Coburn, Johnny Isakson, Dean Heller, Kelly Ayotte, and Susan Collins.
Collins also says shes encouraged by the emerging compromise being negotiated by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey
Senator Max Baucus confirmed today that he has not made up his mind on whether to support allowing the gun proposals to go to a debate. In other words, he isnt preparing to rule out joining with Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell in blocking the gun proposals from reaching the Senate floor. Which raises a question: Are there any other red state Dems who could join this filibuster, too?
Right now, if you total up the 55 Dem Senators, plus the seven Republicans who support moving to a debate, that makes 62 Senators. Dems can only afford to lose two red state Dems if they are going to break the GOPs front end filibuster on moving to debate (or more, if more Republicans, such as Toomey, come out for the motion to proceed).
But if red state Dems can work up the courage to at least allow a debate on these proposals, then we are moving forward and the far right blocs front-end obstructionism will have been broken . . .
read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/09/is-gop-filibuster-of-gun-bill-collapsing/
*changing op title . . .*
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)it's iffy making it out of the Senate. I'm sure the tea partiers are salivating over the possibility of reddish-state Democratic Senators voting for any kind of gun control bill.
Besides, the Repuke House will completely kill this. It will just be a trick to trap Baucus, Begich, Johnson, Landrieu, Prior, and quite possibily Hagen into putting out votes that make them vulnerable in a year that President Obama is not on the ballot to rally all of his base to come to the polls.
groundloop
(11,522 posts)MY Senator, MY repub Senator from Georgia is actually doing something I support? I'm in shock!
I guess I owe him an email thanking him for his position on this.