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The LGBT Congressional Staff Association, the Congressional Muslim Staff Association, and members of Congress gather for a prayer and moment of silence on the
steps of the Capitol to stand in solidarity with the Orlando community and to remember the victims of Sunday’s shooting at an LGBT night club, in Washington, Mon-
day, June 13, 2016. Father Patrick J. Conroy, center, chaplain of the House of Representatives, delivered an interfaith message.

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Democrats Push to Bar Guns for Terror Suspects 

ALAN FRAM                       a range of political issues    include trying to expand      the shooter, identified by     that. Senate Minority Lead-
Associated Press                just months before elec-       background checks for         officials as American-born     er Harry Reid, D-Nev., criti-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dem-          tions in which control of the  gun buyers, he said.          Omar Mateen, 29, was           cized Republicans for the
ocrats will try forcing a Sen-  White House and Congress       Schumer, a member of the      probably inspired by for-      Senate’s 2013 rejection of
ate vote on a proposal          are at stake.                  Senate Democratic lead-       eign terrorist organizations.  bills to tighten background
making it harder for sus-       Top Democratic senators        ership, said he believes      “It’s no longer an open ana-   checks and curb assault
pected terrorists and peo-      told reporters they’d seek     Republicans “in a political   lytical question whether the   weapons.
ple on government terror        a fresh vote on a proposal     season are going to find it   followers of ISIL and other    Reid questioned how Re-
watch lists to buy guns and     by Sen. Dianne Feinstein,      very, very difficult” to op-  Islamic terrorist groups will  publicans could “cam-
explosives, they said Mon-      D-Calif., that the Senate      pose the legislation this     attempt to strike us here in   paign for re-election in
day as Congress moved           rejected last December         time.                         the West,” said McConnell,     good conscience” be-
toward a possible partisan      in a near party-line vote.     Senate Majority Leader        using an acronym for the       cause of those votes.
fight following the week-       Judging from that vote, the    Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., did   Islamic State. “They have,     Forty-nine victims died in
end’s mass shooting in Or-      Democrats’ latest attempt      not address Feinstein’s bill  and they’re going to con-      the Orlando attack and
lando.                          is likely to be difficult.     as the chamber convened       tinue to do so.”               more than 50 were injured,
Their response, and remarks     Democrats consider the bill    Monday but focused on         McConnell said the  U.S.       making it the worst mass
by Republicans focusing on      “the logical and first and     links the shooter apparent-   must “fight back” to pre-      shooting in U.S. history. Ma-
the threat from the Islamic     most likely to pass step” in   ly had to the Islamic State   vent additional attacks        teen was also killed in the
State extremist group, un-      response to the shooting,      extremist group. President    and called on the Obama        Sunday morning shootings.
derscored how the mass          said Sen. Chuck Schumer,       Barack Obama and ad-          administration to brief law-
killing in Florida touched on   D-N.Y. Other steps could       ministration officials said   makers on its plan for doing       Continued on page 3