Legislative News
Legislative Report #18 is now online (pdf).The state legislature is in recess and no other session days have been scheduled for the rest of the year.
Legislative News
Maloney Urges New Approach To Gun Violence Research – Declaring it’s time for new avenues to probe gun violence, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney has introduced legislation to fund public health research to “understand this crisis”. Maloney...
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House Dems consider guns action – House Democrats are considering attaching an amendment to an appropriations bill that would force stricter background checks for gun purchases. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said top Democrats are in “discussions” on an...
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Democrats push to restart CDC funding for gun violence research – Two Congressional Democrats are unveiling legislation this morning that would restart the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s gun violence research efforts. Since 1996, when a...
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Gun owners: Just say no to the SAFE Act – he New York SAFE Act may have been passed by the state more than a year ago, but there has been no let-up in the opposition posed by gun owners to the law that restricts some gun rights, including “high-capacity...
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Senate GOP Sidestep Gun Control Measure – How badly do the Senate Republicans want to avoid any more discussion about the controversial issue of gun control in this crucial election year? Consider this: The Senate rules allow each member – regardless of...