Feinstein adds AWB as amendment to Manchin/Toomey bill

[DallasSleeper]

60-40 against the evil bitch

[racrguy]

Final vote on that one:

yay: 40
nay: 60

[Sean88gt]

That thing got obliterated.

[Dacotua]

60 no
40 yes

[black2002ls]

What else is left?

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[DallasSleeper]

Now comes the most important one to me personally The VA mental health

[Trip McNeely]

Obummer is giving a Press conference now about the defeat.

[War Machine]

the silver tongued devil is talking about the bill not passing

[Chili]

Obummer is giving a Press conference now about the defeat.

The 'people' have spoken, now he needs to STFU.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

Holy fuck, watching c-span raises my blood pressure.

[War Machine]

did yall hear that? its the sound of AR15's going back down and value.

[talisman]

did yall hear that? its the sound of AR15's going back down and value.

Sweet, time to start shopping!

[Pro88LX]

Sweet, time to start shopping!

yeeeep

[turboford]

I seriously thought the VP was going to start crying over this. What a little pack of bitches up there in our house.

[talisman]

Fuck Biden. He is a sack of shit.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases, a blow to advocates calling for more strict firearm laws after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., late last year.

The measure, the product of intense negotiations between Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, would have extended background check requirements on gun owners. It needed 60 votes to pass, but failed 54-46.

Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana voted against it. (Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada switched his vote to no at the end, a procedural tactic that allows him to bring it up for a vote later.) In addition to Toomey, Republicans who supported the amendment were Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.

Scores of onlookers filled the Senate gallery to watch the vote. When Vice President Joseph Biden read the final tally and announced the amendment had not passed, Patricia Maisch, who helped disarm the man who shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, yelled, "Shame on you!" before walking out

As late as Wednesday afternoon, the fate of the measure appeared dire for its supporters. Shortly before the vote, Biden tamped down expectations for it to pass.

“This is going to be a close vote, and I can assure you of one thing—we’re going to get this eventually," Biden said during a live video for Google. "If we don’t get this today, we’ll get this eventually.”

The vice president promised the White House and gun-reform supporters will continue to move ahead regardless of Senate action.