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2 more bills up today: S649 and something else....I can't find it but we're not done yet
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Does anyone have info on the bills being brought forth today?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2Originally posted by LeahComment
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The Senate stands in adjournment until 9:30am on Thursday, April 18, 2013.
Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of S.649, the Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 with the time until 12:00pm equally divided and controlled between the two Leaders or their designees for concurrent debate on the Barrasso and Harkin amendments.
At approximately 12:00pm, there will be 2 roll call votes in relation to the following:
- Barrasso amendment #717 (privacy) and
- Harkin-Alexander amendment #730 (mental health)
Both amendments will be subject to a 60 affirmative-vote threshold. No other amendments are in order to any of these amendments. There will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to each vote. Both votes will be 10 minutes in duration.
Following the roll call votes above, the Senate will recess until 2:00pm to allow for caucus meetings.
At 2:00pm, the Senate will proceed to Executive Session to consider the following nominations:
- Executive Calendar #22 Analisa Torres- to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York and
- Executive Calendar #23 Derrick Kahala Watson- to be United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii
There will be up to 15 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled between Senators Leahy and Grassley or their designees.
At approximately 2:15pm, the Senate will vote on confirmation of the nominations. A roll call vote is expected on confirmation of the Torres nomination and a voice vote is expected on the Watson nomination.Comment
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Barrasso amendment passes
looking for info on the Harkin-Alexander amendmentComment
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They both passed, now what are they? I see the Harkin one was (mental health) and Barrasso (privacy) But does anyone know what they really boil down to?Comment
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I think the barasso amendment stops the release of firearms ownership information being released to the public.Comment
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S.649 is dealing with criminal background checks and regustration. The registration part extends required transfers to all firearms transfers outside of temporary (sporting) instances....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2Originally posted by LeahComment
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This is just one battle, the war is far from over..Why do you think Reid voted the way he did.. All those democrats that voted with the reps are probably up for election next year.. Watch what happens then,IF they are reelected!Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.Comment
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The Harkin Amendment
The legislation calls for federal education and health programs that push for awareness, prevention and early identification of mental health conditions.
It focuses on school settings, promoting school-wide prevention through the development of positive behavioral interventions and supports. It encourages school-based mental health partnerships. It also calls for spending for suicide prevention, help for children recovering from traumatic events, and mental health awareness for teachers.
Barrasso Amendment
Designed to protect the privacy and the safety of law abiding gun ownersComment
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A lot of the votes on the bill/amendments yesterday were too close for comfort. It wouldn't take much for them to go the other way. We (as a nation in general) are allowing them to overn us into servitude. There isn't a large enough part of the population actively interested in government (beyond a candidates platform). There isn't a large enough group interested in the underlying sections of the bills being passed. We are headed to hell in a handbasket in an awful hurryOriginally posted by 68RR View Post
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I thought they were voting on amendments to S649 before they voted on S649 with amendments.Originally posted by Sean88gt View PostOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyComment
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I think Reid just pulled these from a vote. Check me, but if I heard right, he's putting them on ice after yesterday's thumping.Comment
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill.
On a conference call with "stakeholders," Biden told gun control advocates that the fight is not over and that eventual action on gun control will come. Press were not invited to the conference call; a participant provided BuzzFeed with access.
"Look, I know you're going to say that I'm just being an optimist and I'm trying to put a good face on this. But, you know, I've been around here a long time and we've already done, because of you, some really good things," Biden said. "Number one, the president is already lining up some additional executive actions he's going to be taking later this week."
After the Newtown shootings, Obama took a number of executive actions to expand research into gun violence and other areas favored by the gun control community. He took the actions without congressional approval, leading to outrage by some conservatives.
Biden mentioned several areas where executive action has been taken, including helping schools that want them to hire more armed police offers and training teachers to identify and treat possible future school shooters.
"Already we have put out notifications to all communities that if they want school resource officers to use their portion of the COPS grant to be able to deal with a school resource officer or someone in the school who's a counselor, or whatever they need," he said.
"Secondly, we also have pushed forward grants for new and available funding for dealing with training teachers and dealing with alerting them to high-risk, you know, kids in their communities and their school that are signs that they're going to have a real problem and may be the very kids you need to get to now before they end up like an Adam Lanza," he said. "We also are going to have a national mental health dialogue where we're going to vastly expand mental health availability under the Mental Health Parity act as well as the Affordable Care Act."
Biden said the White House is looking at ways to increase the number of people denied the right to buy a firearm under the current background check system.
"We also are reviewing the list of prohibited purchasers to maybe expand that list of prohibited purchasers," he said. "Granted, only 60% of people who go for a purchase are doing it [background checks]."
Biden lamented Wednesday's Senate vote on the call but said it had taken him multiple attempts to pass the Brady Bill in the 1990s. He said that in the long run, supporters of gun control will win out over the NRA and its allies.
Update: A White House official told BuzzFeed the executive actions Biden was referring to on the call are part of Obama's original list of 23 executive actions on guns announced in January.
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