Posted on 05/20/2024 11:27:42 AM PDT by RandFan
Cornyn had negotiated the 2022 gun violence prevention law that the administration relied on for the ATF rule. Now he has 41 Senate Republicans who back his joint resolution to stop that rule.
“Every time that they ask for bipartisanship, then if you provide bipartisan solutions, then they overreach and undermine any sort of good-faith negotiations that take place,” Cornyn said.
Democrats have touted the rule, and the 2022 law the administration based it on, as a shining example of bipartisanship and a major step toward making background checks on gun purchases universal.
In a floor speech Tuesday marking the anniversary of one of the mass shootings that sparked the law, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said the law and implementing rule “shows change is possible when both sides work together even when progress is hard and halting.”
But Cornyn, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and others who helped negotiate the law’s passage said they felt burned by the White House’s decision to push the rule so much further than they expected.
They say the administration took a small change in the language around who can be considered a gun dealer and used it to create a rule that massively expands who qualifies as a gun dealer — and now must comply with federal rules including background checks.
“They basically took a negotiated bill and they changed it and tried to change the law,” Cornyn said.
The 2022 law included sweeping changes to mental health treatment, expanded state grants for school safety, violence prevention and other measures meant to reduce gun violence. The Senate passed the bill 65-33 and the then-Democratic House 234-193 following bipartisan talks after mass shootings in Buffalo; New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Okla.
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This guy wants to be Senate leader?!!
With this kind of judgement?
“Every time that they ask for bipartisanship, then if you provide bipartisan solutions, then they overreach and undermine any sort of good-faith negotiations that take place,” Cornyn said.”
And yet you keep doing it. So what does that make you, Senator?
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Just about every gun law is Unconstitutional -— yet he played the “partisan” fool with tyrants to placate the minions. Any gun law brought to the floor should be an act of treason against the citizens of this nation.
Cornhole is total Rino fool.
Cornyn is a dupe lib wad!
But how can I complain? I’ve got Bob Casey, and Fetterman, thanks to the idiots of Pa!
Ugggghhhhhhh!
Nice going Cornholyn.
Yes, the frustrating part is that they pretend like they didn’t see it coming. The blemish of Reagan’s record is that he compromised with them commies. Forty years later, we’re still dealing with those bullstuff mistakes.
This is a professional politician speaking? Yes, John, they lie and cheat. And water is wet.
Just creating that “plausible” deniability.
Cornyn did not get played.
He’s pretending to be conservative today.
How that crook is senator from Texas is beyond me.
of course he got played.. How in the world could ANYONE expect NOT to get played when in "negotiations" with the demoncrats.?? They're completely dishonest..You would have to be dumber than a box of rocks to expect otherwise..
Someone must have reneged on their agreement with Cornyn for something in return, like an insider tip or campaign donation. None of these bozos actually GAF about the American ppl unless it affects them.
Cornyn is a scammer and only speaking up when he needs the issue to raise money. He’s otherwise anti-2nd amendment.
Never give the communists an inch...
They ALWAYS end up taking a mile...
Bipartisanship == Abject surrender...
Going back to the 1960s, the feckless GOP has carried the water for the communists as they took over permanent control of the Nation...
Cornyn is *such* a tool!
A Tool.
Exactly, Cornyn is a leftist and knows exactly what he is doing. Those buffoons that keep pulling the lever for him in the primaries, they got played good and hard.
Election time must be coming up.
My, after all of these years he is finally figuring this out?
Give him a Gold Star, send him home & keep him there. And they wonder why the base is dissatisfied with all of them?
? They are completely worthless.
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