Cenk Uygur
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Chris Murphy's Gun Control Filibuster Leads To Vote
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June 17, 2016
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4:03Now PlayingThe Chris Murphy-led Democratic filibuster in the Senate has apparently achieved its goal after less than one day. There is going to be a vote of certain gun control measures. John Iadarola (ThinkTank), Jayar Jackson, and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"And then there are “filibusters” like the 15-hour marathon led by SenatorChristopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, on gun violence, which involve a whole lot of talking but do not try to block a vote — as the actor Jimmy Stewart did in the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” — or like Mr. Thurmond, who set a record for the longest filibuster, 24 hours 18 minutes, in a bid to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
In the case of Mr. Murphy, who seized control of the Senate floor for more than 15 hours beginning at 11:21 a.m. on Wednesday, the goal was to force the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, into doing something that was once a matter of routine: allowing votes on amendments to an annual appropriations bill — in this case on Democrats’ amendments to the annual Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill seeking to tighten the nation’s gun laws in the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando, Fla.”*
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Hosts: John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson, Elliot Hill
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