His. Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin The Hill’s Morning Report: Biden’s next act: a major infrastructure plan with tax hikes The Senate confirms Marty Walsh as Biden’s Labor secretary, the White House, looks at T (DW.Va.) said Tuesday that it does not support legislation passed by the House to extend the background to all arms sales.
“What did the House approve? Not at all,” Manchin said when asked if he supports the legislation.
The House approved two bills this month: one to expand the window to complete a background check before arms sales and a second to extend the background check to all sales and transfers. However, the second bill provides for exceptions, including transfers between family members, response to an immediate threat, or temporary transfer by hunting.
Manchin, however, suggested he wanted a bill that would provide a bigger cut for private sales among people he knows.
“I come from a gun culture. I own a law-abiding gun owner,” Manchin said, adding that he supports “basically saying that business transactions should be thoroughly reviewed. You don’t know.” a person”.
“If I know a person, no,” Manchin said.
Manchin and Sen. Pat Toomey
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Collins reiterated Tuesday that he still supports the proposal.
If firearms legislation can pass, Congress is back in the spotlight after a shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, that left ten people dead, including a police officer, and less than a week after the deaths of eight people in three Atlanta. shooting in the area.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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Toomey said he didn’t think “the House has approved anything the Senate can approve.”
Collins, for his part, said that although he had not seen the House bill, he understood it to be “very, very broad.”
Manchin’s opposition also raises questions about whether the legislation would be able to pass, even if Senate Democrats removed the legislative filibuster, an action they also don’t have the support to do.
“House bills will come no matter what happens,” Manchin said of the road ahead. “We will try to do what is responsible and reasonable.”