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With a series of suspension votes this summer, House Democrats managed to avert a vote before recess on ending the moratorium on offshore drilling. As Congress returns to the energy debate, however, the issue has moved to the center of the debate. The Republican demand for an up-or-down vote on the moratorium is even stronger today, after a recess spent on the House floor demanding that Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. call Congress back to deal with the issue. A House GOP leadership aide said that the caucus is particularly ginned up for this fight and feels that it has public opinion firmly on its side. And the standoff over the ban on drilling ndash; which is attached to a spending bill ndash; threatens to shut the government down. A Democratic leadership aide said that discussions were still ongoing and that a final decision on what package to be brought to the floor had yet to be made. It is expected to include expanded offshore drilling on the East Coast ndash; but only with the permission of the individual states ndash; as well as funding for renewab stanley cups uk le energy at the expense of oil companies. Republicans, though, dismiss the package as a non-starter. Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C. , a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona, said that McCain would do everything he could to return to Wa stanley cup nz shington to vote if a comprehensive package were on t stanley cup he table. In St. Paul, Minn. last week, Grah
Over the course of 24 hours, nearly 30 people were killed in two separate mass shootings this past weekend. The massacres spawned calls for government action for some measures to tr stanley thermos y to curb the nation s gun violence epidemic.In 2019 alone, there have been over 33,000 incidents of violent acts committed with guns, according to the Gun Viol stanley cup ence Archive GVA mdash; a staggering statistic that shocks Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike. But so far, they have not been able to agree on what would constitute meaningful gun safety protections.Here s a look at just some of the measures that have been floated in Congress and where they stand: Bump Stock Ban:In 2017, a gunman in Las Vegas was able to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history in part because he modified his semiautomatic firearms to spray fire like automatic machine guns with a device known as a bump stock. This was one of the few events that resulted in governmental action, though not by Congress.In the wake of the shooting, which killed 58 people, the White House announced a rule that fully bansbump stockdevices. The Justice Department in December 2018 amended the federal law prohibiting machine guns to include guns modified with bump stocks. The measure has survived a legal challenge.In March, the Supreme Court declined to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban onbump stockd water bottle stanley evices after gun rights groups called the move unconstitutional. Tyzr Don t be a Justin Timberlake: Your guide to ballot selfie rules across U.S.
With a series of suspension votes this summer, House Democrats managed to avert a vote before recess on ending the moratorium on offshore drilling. As Congress returns to the energy debate, however, the issue has moved to the center of the debate. The Republican demand for an up-or-down vote on the moratorium is even stronger today, after a recess spent on the House floor demanding that Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. call Congress back to deal with the issue. A House GOP leadership aide said that the caucus is particularly ginned up for this fight and feels that it has public opinion firmly on its side. And the standoff over the ban on drilling ndash; which is attached to a spending bill ndash; threatens to shut the government down. A Democratic leadership aide said that discussions were still ongoing and that a final decision on what package to be brought to the floor had yet to be made. It is expected to include expanded offshore drilling on the East Coast ndash; but only with the permission of the individual states ndash; as well as funding for renewab stanley cups uk le energy at the expense of oil companies. Republicans, though, dismiss the package as a non-starter. Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C. , a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona, said that McCain would do everything he could to return to Wa stanley cup nz shington to vote if a comprehensive package were on t stanley cup he table. In St. Paul, Minn. last week, Grah