Dems, GOP seem on collision course over gun, terror bills

Ryan says he doesn’t want to react in “a rash, wrong way”.

Conservatives have also voiced concerns with the bill Ryan was planning to bring to the floor.

The House convened peacefully Tuesday for its first session since Democrats seized control of the chamber last month with a sit-in that lasted nearly 26 hours. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Missouri, said that the Office of Congressional Ethics and the House Parliamentarian would also look into the matter.

“We’re going to have some more action”.

Standing alongside gun violence victims and their families Wednesday, House Democrats renewed their fight to get a vote on proposed gun control legislation.

“What I think is shameful is the fact that we have had all of these shootings in our country and the best Republicans can come up with is a moment of silence”, Pelosi said.

His comments were echoed by others, including Rep. Dave Schweikert of Arizona, who said it was already Wednesday and serious talks about how to resolve perceived problems with the bill have not even started.

Democrats have said that proposal is too weak.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is bowing to the Democrats’ raucous demands and has set himself up for more strife among his own party by agreeing to push a piece of gun legislation through Congress this week.

Some Republicans who are still angry about the House floor blockade want to punish the Democrats for breaking protocol by taking photos and posting them on social media as well as live-streaming the protest from the chamber.

The majority leader’s remarks came shortly after members returned from the July 4 recess. Marco Rubio will skip this month’s Republican national convention, reversing his previous plans.

Republicans have incorporated some gun curbs into a broader bill aimed at addressing domestic terrorism that the House has planned to debate this week, though their plans seemed less certain late Tuesday.

Underscoring the pressure on GOP leaders, a mere vote on the Republican measure would be a departure: Since the 2012 slaying of school children in Newtown, Connecticut, Republicans have not brought any legislation broadly restricting guns to the House floor. They “wanted to express their sorrow over Orlando and urge Congress to take action to pass gun safety laws”, Barrett said.

“This is real-time decision making”, said Rep. Steve Israel of NY, saying events are shifting Democratic strategy. He held up a pocket version of the document for the cameras. We want to make sure we get it right.

“America. We have seen awful, bad senseless things”, Ryan said.

“I can’t get my dry cleaning back in 72 hours”, said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.

“We stand with the vast majority of Americans, who believe that if you’re too unsafe to fly, you’re too risky to buy a gun, who believe that we need to keep guns from criminals, domestic abusers, and the dangerously mentally ill”, Payne said. Next week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch will be called before the House Judiciary Committee.

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., appealed to the House as a whole on Tuesday, saying, “We will no longer be silent”, before he, along with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., met with Speaker Ryan in private to appeal for a vote on two Democrat-backed measures on no fly/no buy and expanded background checks. Democrats insisted that prospect isn’t prompting them to abandon sit-ins as a tactic.

Meanwhile, a group of over 20 grassroots Second Amendment groups including both national and state level organizations, are denouncing any move to implement legislation that denies gun rights without due process as modern day McCarthyism.