Sentences with phrase «gun control bill known»

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Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

In order to avoid voting on a controversial gun bill during an election year — a move that no doubt would have further enraged their conservative allies who were still smarting over passage of the SAFE Act - the Senate Republicans moved the bill from the Codes Committee to the Rules Committee, which is controlled with an iron fist by the leadership.

Grisanti is typically considered one of the more moderate members of the Senate Republican conference — a reputation earned by «yes» votes on two bills pushed by Cuomo: same - sex marriage and the gun control measure known as the SAFE Act.

ALBANY — Pro-gun GOP lawmakers are smoking mad that they voted for millions of dollars in funding for the SAFE Act — the state's strict gun - control law — claiming they didn't know the spending was hidden in state budget bills.

Rep. Chris Collins (R - Clarence) is introducing a bill that aims to take down Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial gun control legislation, known as the SAFE Act.

«[The NRA] wanted this bill to fail because they know that if we leave here with gun control, this will be a wind behind the sails of those kids as they march into Washington, D.C.,» said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D - Coral Springs, a graduate of Stoneman Douglas.