Ready, Aim, Bipartisan Gun Control Deal
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
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Summary
The Senate unveiled a highly-anticipated, bipartisan gun control bill on Tuesday. The chamber voted 64-34 in a procedural vote to allow for its quick passage, which some hope will happen as soon as Saturday. Chip Brownlee, a reporter at The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on gun violence in America, joins us to discuss key parts of the legislation.
And in headlines: a huge earthquake in Afghanistan left over 1,000 people dead, Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson settled with most of his accusers, and the White House plans to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the U.S.
Show Notes:
- The Trace – https://www.thetrace.org/
- CNN: “How to help victims of the Afghanistan earthquake” – https://cnn.it/3n893zU
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday June 23rd. I'm getting a rest. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day where we're looking to set up our newly |
| 0:12.5 | single friend, Rupert Murdock. |
| 0:14.5 | That's right. Friend is interesting. He's more of a friend of me, I guess. We don't feel |
| 0:18.1 | fondly. But he is rich and divorcing his wife, apparently, if you are interested. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah. Shoot us a DM if you want to meet a 90-year-old architect of global chaos. We've got |
| 0:27.2 | someone for you. On today's show, rescue efforts are underway in Afghanistan after a massive |
| 0:35.2 | earthquake killed over a thousand people. Plus, Biden has proposed suspending the federal |
| 0:39.9 | gas tax for three months, though how much that would do to help drivers isn't totally |
| 0:44.4 | clear. |
| 0:45.4 | But first today, we are going to dive a little bit deeper on the gun control bill. The |
| 0:48.9 | Senate unveiled on Tuesday, so you know what's in it and what could happen in its future. |
| 0:53.4 | So hours after the text of the bill was released, the Senate voted 6434 in a procedural vote |
| 0:59.4 | to allow for its quick passage, which some are hoping will happen as soon as Saturday. |
| 1:04.9 | Here is Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, one of the lead negotiators on the bill, talking |
| 1:08.5 | about it on the Senate floor on Tuesday. |
| 1:10.7 | This bill will be too little. For many, it will be too much for others. But it isn't a |
| 1:18.0 | box-checking exercise. This bill is not window-dressing. This bill is going to save lives. |
| 1:25.2 | And given those numbers in that vote, there is a very strong chance at this passes, which |
| 1:28.9 | would make it the first significant gun legislation to be enacted with bipartisan support in 26 |
| 1:35.3 | years. Fourteen Republican senators, including minority leader Mitch McConnell, voted to advance |
| 1:40.6 | it, clearly indicating that there will be enough support to meet the 60-vote threshold |
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