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    Default New gun-control fight could upend plan to help vulnerable Democrats

    This was going to be a quiet week in the U.S. Senate, one during which the majority Democrats would take the opportunity to help a colleague facing a tough reelection race.

    But what was supposed to be an innocuous election-year proposal, designed to draw considerable bipartisan support, has become the first big fight over gun control in Washington in more than a year — reopening old wounds for the very Democrats it was supposed to help.

    The measure would expand access to hunting and fishing on federal lands. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is the lead sponsor. She faces one of the most challenging reelections this year, so she convinced 45 other senators — including 26 Republicans — that they should back the bill, making it one of the most popular legislative proposals debated by the Senate this year.
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    Default Re: New gun-control fight could upend plan to help vulnerable Democrats

    Dead, I believe:

    http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/07/...ear-bill.html#

    WASHINGTON — Republicans and liberal Democrats on Thursday derailed a Senate bill to help hunters and potentially aid Democratic senators seeking re-election in GOP-leaning states. It's the latest bipartisan measure to fall victim to election-year maneuvering.

    The broadly popular legislation would have opened more federal lands to hunters and other sportsmen, increased funds for shooting ranges and blocked government curbs on bullets and fishing gear containing lead. It also would have renewed some conservation programs.But senators voted 56-41 against ending debate on the bill as the measure became enmeshed in gun politics. Supporters fell 19 votes short of the 60 needed to move to a final vote, effectively derailing it.All 45 Republicans voted against moving ahead on the legislation — enough to block the bill — as did 11 Democrats.

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    Default Re: New gun-control fight could upend plan to help vulnerable Democrats

    Hairy Reid is a master of deception. Who can say where this proposal will go and what sort of crap will be attached to it?

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