The Senate will vote on four gun control measures Monday after being
prodded by a 15-hour filibuster in the wake of the shooting massacre at
a Florida nightclub.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky,
filed cloture motions Thursday on four gun-related amendments to a
spending bill, a day after Democrats ended their filibuster to force some sort of action on gun restrictions.
"Cloture" is a parliamentary procedure that starts the clock on 30 hours of debate before a vote.
The amendments — two filed by Dianne Feinstein,
D-California, and Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut ,and two other, less
restrictive measures filed by Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and John Cornyn,
R-Texas — would address background checks of prospective gun buyers and
the sale of guns and explosives to people on terrorist watch lists.
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