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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 FilibusterÂ
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,â€
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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