Murphy, Christopher Scott
Leaving Wish Lists at the Door, Senators Found Consensus on Guns
WASHINGTON — Inside a pink-hued hideaway office in the basement of the Capitol last month, Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, did something unusual for the start of a high-stakes legislative negotiation: Instead of a wish list, he came with a blacklist. Two days earlier, an 18-year-old man had walked into an elementary school […]
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Bipartisan Gun Bill Clears Initial Vote in Senate
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday cleared the first hurdle to passing a bipartisan measure aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous people, agreeing to take up a compromise bill whose enactment would break a yearslong stalemate over federal legislation to address gun violence. While the bill falls short of the sweeping […]
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Gun Talks Snag on Tricky Question: What Counts as a Boyfriend?
WASHINGTON — Among the sticking points standing in the way of a final deal on what could be the first significant bipartisan gun safety legislation in decades is an age-old question: How do you define a boyfriend? The question may sound frivolous, but for a small group of Republicans and Democrats who are pressing to […]
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Senators Reach Bipartisan Deal on Gun Safety
WASHINGTON — Senate negotiators announced on Sunday that they had struck a bipartisan deal on a narrow set of gun safety measures with sufficient support to move through the evenly divided chamber, a significant step toward ending a yearslong congressional impasse on the issue. The agreement, put forth by 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats and […]
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House Passes Red-Flag Bill as Senate Talks on Gun Violence Continue
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday voted nearly along party lines to pass legislation that would allow guns to be temporarily confiscated from people deemed by a federal court to be dangerous, acting a day after it passed a sweeping measure to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 […]
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As Survivors Demand Action, House Passes Gun Bill Doomed in the Senate
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted nearly along party lines to bar the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under the age of 21 and ban the sale of large-capacity magazines, acting as traumatized parents of victims and survivors of mass shootings made wrenching appeals for Congress to act on gun violence. The vote […]
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Massacres Test Whether Washington Can Move Beyond Paralysis
WASHINGTON — Days after 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in Texas, politicians in Washington are tinkering around the edges of America’s gun laws. A bipartisan group of senators is scheduled to hold virtual meetings early next week and has some proposals on the table: the expansion of background checks, legal changes to […]
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Senators Grasp for a Bipartisan Gun Deal, Facing Long Odds
WASHINGTON — After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, a small group of Republican and Democratic senators have begun an urgent and uphill effort to strike a compromise on new gun laws, voicing hope that a wave of collective outrage at the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers could finally conquer a decade […]
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Congress Is Paralyzed on Guns. Here’s Why Chris Murphy Is Still Hopeful.
WASHINGTON — It did not take long after the racist gun massacre in Buffalo for a familiar sense of resignation to set in on Capitol Hill about the chance that Congress would be able to muster the will to act on meaningful legislation to combat gun violence in America. In emotional remarks at the scene […]
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