Sentences with phrase «expand background checks held»
Rep. Steve Israel calls on the Republican - controlled Congress to pass legislation to close gun sale loopholes and expand background checks held outside of the Great Neck South Middle School in Great Neck, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.
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He yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m. EDT, saying he had won commitments from Republican leaders that they would hold votes on amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists.
Senate Democrats including Sen. Charles E. Schumer were exultant last week after a 15 - hour filibuster yielded the seemingly impossible: A commitment to hold votes to expand gun - purchaser background checks and keep potential terrorists from buying guns.