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Gun control must include background checks, Dems tell Trump

By HOPE YEN The bill would expand call with Trump, which took
Associated Press background checks to place shortly after 11 a.m.,
WASHINGTON (AP) — Con- cover private sales such as lasted about 10 minutes,
gressional Democratic one that allowed a Texas according to a Democrat-
leaders warned President shooting suspect to pur- ic aide.
Donald Trump on Sun- chase his weapon before "We will not stop until these
day that any proposal on killing seven people last bills are passed and our
gun control must include month. children's lives are safe," the
a House-passed bill to ex- Trump and White House Democratic leaders said.
pand background checks aides have discussed a After a summer of dev-
for gun purchases — or else number of gun-control astating mass shootings,
risk no legislation at all. measures with members of Congress has struggled to
In a joint statement, House Congress, including steps reach agreement on legis-
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and to go after fraudulent buy- lation to curb gun violence
Senate Democratic leader ers, notify state and local as Trump pledged to pro-
Chuck Schumer said they Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with report- law enforcement when tect the Second Amend-
spoke Sunday morning by ers just after the House Judiciary Committee approved guide- a potential buyer fails a ment and wavered on
lines for impeachment hearings on President Donald Trump, at
phone with Trump, who the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. background check, issue what kind of bill he wants
planned to announce as Associated Press state-level emergency risk the lawmakers to send for
soon as this week what protection orders, boost his signature.But while the
measures he supported. A White House spokesman, to continue work on these mental health assistance president has waffled pub-
Pelosi, D-Calif., and Schum- Judd Deere, confirmed issues." and speed up executions licly on expanded back-
er, D-N.Y., said they made that Trump spoke with the Senate Majority Leader for those found guilty of ground checks, he has
clear that any proposal Democratic leaders at Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., committing mass shootings. directed his staff to con-
lacking the House legisla- their request and indicated has declined to hold a Pelosi and Schumer said tinue to work with lawmak-
tion "will not get the job to them a desire to find a vote on the bill, which was they promised Trump that ers — including Republican
done" by leaving danger- "bipartisan legislative solu- approved by the Demo- if he endorses the House Sen. Pat Toomey of Penn-
ous loopholes. tion" but made no commit- cratic-controlled House in legislation on background sylvania and Democratic
"We know that to save as ments. February. He says it's not checks and gets McCon- Sens. Chris Murphy of Con-
many lives as possible, the "The conversation was cor- clear the Senate would be nell to act on it, they would necticut and Joe Manchin
Senate must pass this bill dial," Deere said. "The presi- able to pass the legislation join the president "for a of West Virginia — to try to
and the president must sign dent reiterated his commit- or that Trump would sign it historic signing ceremony hash out an agreement he
it," they said. ment for his administration into law. at the Rose Garden." Their can support.q

Dem presidential candidates call for Kavanaugh's impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sev- tial candidates on Sunday peachment of Supreme ugh in the face of a new, setts Sen. Elizabeth War-
eral Democratic presiden- lined up to call for the im- Court Justice Brett Kavana- uninvestigated, allegation ren, tweeted that "Confir-
of sexual impropriety when mation is not exoneration,
he was in college. and these newest revela-
Kavanaugh was confirmed tions are disturbing. Like
last October after emo- the man who appointed
tional hearings in the Sen- him, Kavanaugh should
ate over a sexual assault be impeached." Former
allegation from his high Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke
school years. The New York asserted in a tweeted, "We
Times now reports that Ka- know he lied under oath.
vanaugh faced a separate He should be impeached."
allegation from his time at He accused the GOP-run
Yale University and that the Senate of forcing the FBI "to
FBI did not investigate the rush its investigation to save
claim. The latest claim mir- his nomination."
rors one offered during his Their comments followed
confirmation process by similar ones from Julian
Deborah Ramirez, a Yale Castro, a former U.S. hous-
classmate who claimed ing secretary, on Saturday
Kavanaugh exposed him- night. "It's more clear than
self to her during a drunken ever that Brett Kavana-
party. ugh lied under oath," he
When he testified before tweeted. "He should be
the Senate Judiciary Com- impeached and Congress
mittee last year, Kavana- should review the failure of
ugh denied all allegations the Department of Justice
of impropriety . to properly investigate the
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., matter." Sen. Bernie Sand-
said after the new report ers of Vermont didn't refer
that "Brett Kavanaugh lied to impeachment by name
to the U.S. Senate and most in a tweet Sunday, but said
importantly to the Ameri- he would "support any ap-
can people." She tweeted: propriate constitutional
"He must be impeached." mechanism" to hold Kava-
A 2020 rival, Massachu- naugh "accountable."q