Gun Bill Passes Senate Cloture, Despite the Fact that No Senator Has Actually Seen It
Bryan Preston
PJ Media
4/11/2013
The gun bill passed cloture in the Senate with 68 votes today.
How does this happen, in what we are told is the world’s greatest deliberative body, when senators have not even seen the text of the legislation?
Speaking on the Senate floor minutes before the vote to move gun-control legislation forward, Mike Lee (R., Utah) urged postponing the cloture vote because none of his Senate colleagues has yet had a chance to read the entire bill. “We’re trying to prevent the ability of members to push through legislation before anyone has had the time to read and evaluate the language,” Lee said. “As of this morning, as of this very moment, not a single senator has been provided the legislative text of” the background-check provision proposed yesterday by senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, which Lee said was the “centerpiece of this legislation.”
The cloture vote does not guarantee that the bill will pass, but it does now put it up to a simple majority vote in the Senate. Democrats have the majority in the Senate, and often vote with their party rather than vote with what their constituents want. They did that very thing when they passed ObamaCare, and had not read that bill before passing it either…
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Also at the site, Young Gun Expert Pictured in Rolling Stone: ‘Inaccurate, Biased Article’
Update: Brilliant! Gun Rights Group Calls For Universal Background Checks on Elected Officials
…“If you compare percentages, the rate of criminal activity by politicians is probably far higher than the rate of crimes committed by the general public.”…
Update 2: Ted Nugent: ‘I Don’t Trust the Government!’ And why should you?
Ted Nugent Tells CNN What He Thinks of Senate’s Gun Bill (and Recommends Eric Holder Be Arrested)
“I reject it out of hand as a feel-good measure that’s not going to accomplish anything. It won’t stop any shootings, that’s for sure.”…
