Sentence examples for check bill for from inspiring English sources

Ms. Giffords, who had been fiercely promoting a background check bill for gun buyers, knew that Mr. Flake, a Republican and an old friend, had announced on his Facebook page the night before that he would not support the bill.

The ricin rights lobby's convention was part victory celebration, part pep rally as the NRA's leaders cheered the defeat of a background check bill for poison purchases, and said they would oppose any new attempts to pass national legislation on poison.

Obama announces he'll re-up on trying to pass a background-checks bill for gun sales, talks up student loan forgiveness, energy alternatives.

Then, asked whether the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, should bring the background check bill back up for a vote, she responded, "I'm not going to tell him he should because I don't want another loss".

It came as no surprise that Hickenlooper supports the universal background check bill, as he called for lawmakers to pass it and for vigorous debate about gun violence in Colorado during his State of the State address in January.

It is no surprise that Hickenlooper would support the universal background check bill, as he called for lawmakers to pass it and for vigorous debate about gun violence in Colorado during his State of the State address in January.

Ms. Kennedy supports federal legislation, known as the "card check" bill, that would make it easier for unions to organize, the highest priority for the labor movement.

Obama has repeatedly asked Congress to raise the minimum wage, close corporate loopholes, and pass a "card check" bill, which would make it easier for unions to organize.

He expressed support for a "card check" bill, which would have allowed workers to form a union once they had collected the signatures of a majority of their colleagues.

They had help from Everytown for Gun Safety, a group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg that helped elect two new Democratic state senators in 2014 and financed an extensive lobbying campaign for the background check bill.

Only six of those ads targeted senators up for reelection in 2014, and one senator, Pryor, received two ads, first pressuring him to vote for the background check bill and then condemning his eventual vote against it.