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Gun control advocates in Texas have been pushing lawmakers to tighten the state's laws over the past month, demanding a background checks provision for all would-be gun buyers.

indicated Tuesday that he talked to Vice President Joe Biden this week about the bill, and separately talked to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va)., who has been taking the lead on the background checks provision.

Their reasons ranged from wanting to see the language on the background checks provision first, to general vows to protect people's Second Amendment rights, to being opposed to creating laws that they didn't think need to be created.

The Arizona senator did not say whether or not he would support new background checks provisions.

That is likely to remain in the official bill, along with limits on gun trafficking, although even the background-checks provision is having trouble drawing sufficient Republican support.

But if written narrowly, a background check provision could potentially win bipartisan support.

The card-check provision was so central to the legislation that it was known as "the card-check bill".

Though the Democrats have a 60-40 vote advantage in the Senate, and President Obama supports the measure, several moderate Democrats opposed the card-check provision as undemocratic.

"If it does fail, then Congress is going to need to explain why they thwarted the will of the electorate," Mr. Feinblatt said of the background check provision.

Having insisted for months -- for years, actually -- that the card-check provision is central to improving the law, it is belatedly backing off and defining success downward.

Representative Bill Thomas, Republican of California, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and author of the bill, said the check provision was not left out through malice and said senators were free to bring it up in conference.