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A Democratic senator ended a nearly 15-hour-long filibuster on the Senate floor early Thursday, part of an effort to force a vote on gun control legislation following Sunday's terror attack in Orlando. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., yielded the floor at 2:11 a.m., 14 hours and 50 minutes after he began speaking.
Sen. Chris Murphy, Conn., took to the Senate floor Wednesday vowing to speak as long as he can until Senate takes up gun legislation. Democratic senators stage 'filibuster' to demand action on gun bills Sen. Chris Murphy, Conn., took to the Senate floor Wednesday vowing to speak as long as he can until Senate takes up gun legislation.
People on the United States' terrorist watch list passed background checks and have been allowed to purchase firearms 91% of the time in 2015, updated federal data shows. An updated report by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office, shows individuals on the terrorist watch list were involved in background checks to purchase firearms 244 times - with 223 of those transactions, or 91%, allowed to proceed.
Senate Democrats will try to force a vote on legislation that would block people on a federal terror watch list from purchasing guns, in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting Sunday. Senate Republicans blocked the legislation in December after arguing that the terror watch list is often error-ridden and includes many innocent people.
Now the Democrats' presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton aimed for primary election victories in California and five other states Tuesday to send her into the general election with fresh momentum. Donald Trump got new blasts from his own Republican Party for his comments on a federal judge.
The top two Democrats in California's U.S. Senate race have raised more than a combined $12 million for their campaigns, but many of the state's most generous and loyal campaign donors have yet to crack open their wallets. During Sen. Barbara Boxer's hard-fought 2010 campaign against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, her supporters helped her secure reelection with more than $10 million in individual contributions in 2009-2010.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sen. Bernie Sanders' fight for the Democratic nomination is "all but over," adding that the nation would be "better off" if he worked to bridge the party's divides ahead of the general election. Feinstein, one of the earliest members of Congress to endorse Hillary Clinton, encouraged Sanders to view his campaign from a "real perspective."
Attorney General Kamala Harris thanks California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, after he announced his endorsement of her for the U.S. Senate during a news conference at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif. Harris is running against fellow Democrat, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, among others, to replace Barbara Boxer who is retiring.
The blowup in Nevada has prompted many of Sanders's Senate colleagues to urge him to get control of what he started-and direct it away from Democrats and toward Trump. While Sanders young and energetic base is something the Democratic Party desperately wants to coopt in the general election, senior Democrats want Vermont's junior senator to harness that anger and point it at Donald Trump.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is warning that Bernie Sanders' intention to take his candidacy to the Democratic convention in July could spark unrest similar to the chaotic 1968 convention in Chicago and the riots surrounding it. "It worries me a great deal," Feinstein told CNN's Manu Raju.
With congressional leaders once again at a stalemate over how to respond to a mass shooting, the Senate's most moderate Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, is developing a compromise measure that would prevent some terrorism suspects from purchasing weapons, while sidestepping partisan flash points that have doomed similar legislation in the past and threaten to do so again next week. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has already scheduled votes for Monday on four proposals - two sponsored by Republicans and two by Democrats - but all four are expected to fail in a nearly identical replay of votes last December after the attack in San Bernardino , Calif.