Sentence examples for check legislation from inspiring English sources

Nothing in the failed background check legislation would have or could have prevented the attack at the school.

Should it eventually pass the Senate, the background check legislation would then head to a House chamber firmly controlled by Republicans and advocates of gun rights.

She did not address her gun control advocacy, which encountered a setback last month when the Senate blocked background check legislation.

Given that Congress is so dysfunctional that it could not pass gun background check legislation despite 90percentt public support, or a farm bill, climate legislation seems a tall order.

In "A Senator's Search for an Ally Keeps a Gun Bill Alive," and "Senate Votes, 68 to 31, to Allow Debate on Gun Legislation," Jennifer Steinhauer writes about two senators, a Democratic and Republican, who are working together to get the Senate to pass new background check legislation.

Officials hope that clarifying the so-called "engaged in the business" language in existing background check legislation will go a long way to prevent criminals and mentally ill people from buying guns through sellers who exploit a current loophole designed only for hobbyists and personal sales.

But all four lawmakers appeared at a news conference today to support the background-check legislation.

Labor leaders have pressed their Democratic allies, unsuccessfully so far, to muster the 60 votes needed in the Senate to advance card-check legislation.

About the only meaningful movement we've seen is an effort by Democratic senator Joe Manchin and Republican senator Pat Toomey to revive the expanded background-check legislation that the Senate killed in 2013.

So now what reason do moderate Republicans — whose votes will be necessary in both the Senate and the House — have to buck their party and vote for background-check legislation that the N.R.A. strongly opposes?

That, of course, was before the abandonment of "card-check" legislation for unions and of the so-called public option in health care, the escalation in Afghanistan and the formation of the deficit-reduction commission.