News of the Santa Clarita school shooting broke just as Connecticut's two Democratic senators were making an emotional case for gun control on the Senate floor.
News of the Santa Clarita, California, school shooting broke Thursday just as Connecticut's two Democratic senators were making an emotional case for gun control on the Senate floor.
"As I speak on the floor right now, there is a school shooting in Santa Clara, California," Blumenthal said, misstating the Santa Clarita location."How can we turn the other way, how can we refuse to see that shooting in real time, demanding our attention, requiring our action? We are complicit if we fail to act. It is not just a political responsibility, it is a moral imperative," he said.While debating gun control legislation on the Senate floor, Sen.
He asked for unanimous consent to pass the legislation dubbed the"Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019" that would establish new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties - or, unlicensed individuals. "You're in the majority! You have the ability to pass legislation that you support, that Democrats can support as well. And the idea that we are just going to sit here and twiddle our thumbs week after week as 100 people are killed by guns [every day]...it's an abdication of our basic responsibility as United States Senators," he said.
Hyde-Smith claimed that by passing the legislation via a unanimous consent request -- meaning without a roll call vote in which every senator is on the record -- it also bypasses"regular order" and stifles debate on the matter.
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