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Before Maine mass shooting, Senate approved amendment that would scale back veteran background checks for guns - WEIS
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Inverse Couple Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Hours before a suspect, a U.S. Army reservist with mental health concerns, fatally shot 18 people in Lewiston, Maine Wednesday, the Senate approved an amendment that would scale back background check requirements for some veterans and service members with mental health issues.
The amendment was authored by Republican Sens. John Kennedy and Jerry Moran, who had concerns that veterans could lose gun rights. It prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from reporting certain veterans to the National Criminal Background Check system when their finances are being managed by a conservator at the VA.
According to Kennedy, under current law, if the Department of Veterans Affairs steps in to help manage a veteran s financial benefits in a conservatorship, the VA is required to report that veteran to the criminal background check system.
The Kennedy amendment, which passed by a vote of 53-45, prohibits the secretary from transmitting the inf
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) House Republicans emerged from a closed-door meeting Thursday afternoon with little clarity about who will be the next speaker as it appears Majority Leader Steve Scalise doesn t currently have the votes needed to earn him the top spot just one day after he won the party s nomination in a private ballot at the Capitol.
Scalise addressed the conference during the closed-door session Thursday. He left the meeting telling reporters that he will be talking with holdouts to work to flip their votes.
"We re honing in on, I think, the real concerns and issues that members have. Members want to get the House working again, but they want to get the institution working again. Congress is broken. And we need to fix it," Scalise told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. "We need to continue to make the kind of reforms that open this process up again, that address the problems that are facing hardworking families."
Steve Scalise meets with holdouts as House speaker battle drags on
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