{"id":2485,"date":"2013-04-16T07:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:46:03","slug":"still-a-long-way-to-go-in-senate-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/16\/still-a-long-way-to-go-in-senate-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Still a Long Way To Go in Senate On Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=27855&amp;format=homepage_lead\"><\/p>\n<p>Democrats were feeling pretty good last week after inking a bipartisan agreement on sweeping background checks for gun purchases and getting the votes to begin a Senate debate on new gun restrictions. But now they return to the Capitol at just the beginning of what will be a long, tough road to turn gun legislation into law.<\/p>\n<p>First, the bill must survive this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s planned debate in the Senate. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still unclear whether the pact struck by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania to expand background checks has the 60 votes needed to pass. Indeed, it looks like it might not.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just because your leadoff hitter is on base in the first inning doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean you won the game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a GOP Senate leadership aide said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It just means your leadoff hitter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on first base.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/still-a-long-way-to-go-in-senate-on-gun-control-20130415\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/daily\/still-a-long-way-to-go-in-senate-on-gun-control-20130415<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats were feeling pretty good last week after inking a bipartisan agreement on sweeping background checks for gun purchases and getting the votes to begin a Senate debate on new gun restrictions. But now they return to the Capitol at just the beginning of what will be a long, tough road to turn gun legislation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/16\/still-a-long-way-to-go-in-senate-on-gun-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still a Long Way To Go in Senate On Gun Control&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[943,114,6],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-chris-frates","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-E5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}