Sentence examples for check proposal from inspiring English sources

Republicans also sharply criticized the background check proposal.

The senator helped lead negotiations on a background check proposal that fell apart earlier this year.

But the stonewalling of the background check proposal was a mistake, both politically and substantively.

In the two weeks since his background check proposal was defeated in the Senate, Senator Pat Toomey has experienced a huge increase in his approval ratings for defying his party and standing up for common sense.

Mr. Kirk is also working on a background check proposal with Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, who is considered somewhat of a bellwether among Democrats with strong gun-rights records.

This fall, the nuclear industry came back to Congress with a "blank check" proposal for virtually unlimited loan guarantees to build new reactors.

But those voices have largely gone to ground, with the lawmakers unwilling to sign on to any of the background check proposals circulating.

Republican opponents in Washington have promised a court fight against even the more modest background check proposals that remain in the White House plan, but it is not hard to imagine the real battles that might have resulted from the firearms seizures and mass arrests proposed by Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City.

And indeed it does seem that the background-check proposal is in serious jeopardy.

When the family members of victims showed up in Washington, Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, called them the president's "props".Mr Paul and others noted that the background-check proposal would not have stopped Adam Lanza, the shooter in Newtown, who had used his mother's legally-obtained guns to carry out his massacre.

In response to the new background-check proposal, the NRA said:While the overwhelming rejection of President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg's 'universal' background check agenda is a positive development, we have a broken mental health system that is not going to be fixed with more background checks at gun shows.