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The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on a series of gun-related proposals in the wake of the Orlando sh stanley cup ooting attack.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced late Thursday that the upper chamber would vote on two competing proposals that address the no-fly list and the ability for people on it to purchase guns and two competing proposals that address background checks.One of the bills was offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, after the shooting in San Bernardino last December. It w stanley website ould ban people who are on the government s no-fly list from being able to buy a gun. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has offered an alternative that would provide due proces stanley mugs s by allowing the government to delay a gun sale to a suspected terrorist for 72 hours, but it would require prosecutors to go to court to permanently block the sale, according to the Associated Press. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, who launched a 15-hour talking filibuster Wednesday into early Thursday morning to demand gun control action, has offered a bill addressing background checks of prospective gun buyers and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, offered a competing bill that s less restrictive.All of the measures are expected to fail. Since the attack early Sunday that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been demanding that Republicans take action on guns since the shooter used an AR-15-style rifle and a semi-automatic pis Iwdd West Virginia U. Students To Go Multiple Sources For Election News
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales offered additional defenses of President Bush s domestic spying program on Tuesday, as the administration tried to redefine the warrantless surveillance in a way that undermines critics.During his speech, more than a dozen students staged a silent protest by turning their backs to Gonzales, reports CBS News kubki stanley Stephanie Lambidakis. Five students wearing black hoods unfurled a banner with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: Those wh stanley mug o would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Speaking to students at Georgetown University law school, Gonzales said a 15-day grace period allowing warrantless eavesdropping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act demonstrates that Congress knew such surveillance would be essential in wartime. Gonzales was supplying legal arguments to the president s comments Monday that the effort should be called a terrorist surveillance program. Before his appearance at Georgetown, Gonzales said in a television interview that some congressional leaders told the administration in 2004 that it would not be possible to write legislation regarding the warrantless surveillance effort without compro stanley kubek mising its effectiveness. We did go to certain members of the congressional leadership a year and a half ago, Gonzales said on The Early Show.During his remarks in a packed law school lecture room at Georgetown, the attorney general also said the legal standard the administra
The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on a series of gun-related proposals in the wake of the Orlando sh stanley cup ooting attack.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced late Thursday that the upper chamber would vote on two competing proposals that address the no-fly list and the ability for people on it to purchase guns and two competing proposals that address background checks.One of the bills was offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, after the shooting in San Bernardino last December. It w stanley website ould ban people who are on the government s no-fly list from being able to buy a gun. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has offered an alternative that would provide due proces stanley mugs s by allowing the government to delay a gun sale to a suspected terrorist for 72 hours, but it would require prosecutors to go to court to permanently block the sale, according to the Associated Press. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, who launched a 15-hour talking filibuster Wednesday into early Thursday morning to demand gun control action, has offered a bill addressing background checks of prospective gun buyers and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, offered a competing bill that s less restrictive.All of the measures are expected to fail. Since the attack early Sunday that left 49 people dead and 53 wounded, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been demanding that Republicans take action on guns since the shooter used an AR-15-style rifle and a semi-automatic pis Iwdd West Virginia U. Students To Go Multiple Sources For Election News
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales offered additional defenses of President Bush s domestic spying program on Tuesday, as the administration tried to redefine the warrantless surveillance in a way that undermines critics.During his speech, more than a dozen students staged a silent protest by turning their backs to Gonzales, reports CBS News kubki stanley Stephanie Lambidakis. Five students wearing black hoods unfurled a banner with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: Those wh stanley mug o would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Speaking to students at Georgetown University law school, Gonzales said a 15-day grace period allowing warrantless eavesdropping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act demonstrates that Congress knew such surveillance would be essential in wartime. Gonzales was supplying legal arguments to the president s comments Monday that the effort should be called a terrorist surveillance program. Before his appearance at Georgetown, Gonzales said in a television interview that some congressional leaders told the administration in 2004 that it would not be possible to write legislation regarding the warrantless surveillance effort without compro stanley kubek mising its effectiveness. We did go to certain members of the congressional leadership a year and a half ago, Gonzales said on The Early Show.During his remarks in a packed law school lecture room at Georgetown, the attorney general also said the legal standard the administra