up the pressure, ramp up the pressure on the republican-led senate, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and president trump to do something legislatively. their primary push at this point try and get the united states senate to come back to washington from the five-week recess and consider and vote on a house-passed bill to expand background checks. here's the rub -- senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made clear that won't happen, at least bringing lawmakers back for recess. what he said instead is that lawmakers, he has tasked lawmakers, three chairmen specifically, to work on bipartisan proposals over the course of the next couple of weeks and then consider whether there's something to debate in september. that is not good enough for democrats. take a listen to what house majority leader steny hoyer had to say. >> i think the american people need to be outraged by that refusal to bring a bill supported by over 90% of the american people to the floor for consideration. not to bring it to the floor is an abdication of his