Senate OKs landmark gun violence bill, House passage is next
The Senate on Thursday easily approved a bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unthinkable just a month ago, clearing the way for final congressional approval of what will be lawmakers’ most far-reaching response in decades to the nation’s run of brutal mass shootings.
After years of GOP procedural delays that derailed Democratic efforts to curb firearms, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable after last month’s rampages in New York and Texas. It took weeks of closed-door talks but a group of senators from both parties emerged with a compromise embodying incremental but impactful movement to curb bloodshed that has come to regularly shock — yet no longer surprise — the nation.
The $13 billion measure would toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous. It would also fund local programs for school safety, mental health and violence prevention.
The election-year package fell far short of more robust gun restrictions Democrats have sought for years, including bans on the assault-type weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines used in the slayings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. Yet the accord let leaders of both parties declare victory and demonstrate to voters that they know how to compromise and make government work, while also leaving room for each side to appeal to its core supporters.
“This is not a cure-all for the all the ways gun violence affects our nation,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whose party has made gun restrictions a goal for decades. “But it is a long overdue step in the right direction. Passing this gun safety bill is truly significant, and it’s going to save lives.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a nod to the Second Amendment right to bear arms that drives many conservative voters, said “the American people want their constitutional rights protected and their kids to be safe in school.” He said “they want both of those things at once, and that is just what the bill before the Senate will have accomplished.”
The day proved bittersweet for advocates of curtailing gun violence. Underscoring the enduring potency of conservative cIout, the right-leaning Supreme Court issued a decision expanding the right of Americans to carry arms in public. The justices struck down a New York law that has required people to prove a need for carrying a weapon before they get a license to do so.
The vote on final passage was 65-33.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/gun-bill-on-road-to-passage-as-senate-overcomes-gop-delays/
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After a month of training, Mills and Mendel wrote up their findings, which was published in the journal Forensic Science International: Synergy in June 2021. They reported that the dogs were accurately detecting COVID more than 96% of the time.
[almost as accurate as a PCR test]
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Saturday June 18, 2022
The House stands adjourned until June 21, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT
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RALLY DAY RALLY DAY RALLY DAY
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June 18, 2022
Texas Local Runoff Elections
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https://www.arlingtontx.gov/city_hall/departments/city_secretary/elections/june_18__2022_runoff_election
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June 18, 2022 - June 20, 2022
11th annual Municipal Finance Conference
Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/events/11th-annual-municipal-finance-conference/
June 18, 2022
10:15 AM EDT
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - SARah 1 - SLC-4E
Vandenberg Space Force Base
https://www.spacex.com/launches/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCX-KUCn4A4
June 18, 2022
4:40 PM EDT
Virtual Panel Discussion: Monetary Policy at a Crossroads
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/events/2022/22panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XGENGqvEAQ
June 18, 2022
5:00 PM EDT
LIVE: President Trump Speaks at the American Freedom Tour, LIVE from Memphis, TN 6/18/22
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June 19th, 2022 EDT
12:27 AM EDT
Globalstar-2 FM-15 | Falcon 9 Block 5
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
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TELL the shill that the men who fought on either side at Hastings' plain cared nothing for national but everything for feudal allegiance; that lex terrae means the local custom of ordeal and not the "law of the land"; tell him that judicium parium means the right of a noble to be judged by nobles, and has nothing to do with the jury system; tell him that Magna Carta was certainly drawn up before the meeting at Runnymede; that not until the Lancastrians did English kings speak English; that Oliver Cromwell owed his position to the enormous wealth of the Williamses, of whom had he not been a cadet, he would never have been known; tell him that the whole force of the Parliament resided in the squires and that the Civil Wars turned England into an oligarchy; tell him the exact truth about the infamy of Churchill; tell him what proportion of Englishmen during the American War were taxed without being represented; tell him what proportion of Washington's troops were of English blood; tell him any one illuminating and true thing about the history of his country, and the novelty will so offend him that a direct insult would have pleased him better.
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