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On the
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., left, confers with Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., emerge from a closed-door party caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Murphy launched a filibuster Wednesday demanding a vote on gun control measures. The move comes three days after dozens of people were killed in a mass
shooting in Orlando.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Senator Frustrated By Inaction on Guns Wages Filibuster 

WASHINGTON (AP) —            nightclub in Orlando, Flori-  sign that we can come to-      said he would meet with       anything, anything at all in
A Democratic senator         da, in the worst mass shoot-  gether,” as he also evoked     the National Rifle Associa-   the face of that continued
waged a filibuster into the  ing in modern U.S. history.   the Newtown school shoot-      tion about the terror watch   slaughter isn’t just painful
night Wednesday to force     Connecticut Sen. Chris Mur-   ing in his state in 2012. His  list and gun purchases.       to us, it’s unconscionable,”
a vote on gun control leg-   phy said he would remain      plea came as presumptive       “For those of  us  that rep-  Murphy said.
islation three days after    on the Senate floor “until    Republican presidential        resent Connecticut, the
49 people were killed at a   we get some signal, some      candidate Donald Trump         failure of this body to do          Continued on Page 4

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