{"id":653079,"date":"2013-04-17T19:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=1bf7ca8d4bb9572f7c6194a8fa1c3c96"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:02:20","slug":"senate-votes-to-block-expanded-background-checks-for-gun-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653079","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to Block Expanded Background Checks for Gun Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by Americans whose lives and families had been forever changed by gun violence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/17\/statement-president\">President Obama spoke from the Rose Garden <\/a>about today&rsquo;s Senate vote on expanded background checks for gun sales.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A few months ago, in response to too many tragedies &#8212; including the shootings of a United States Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, who&rsquo;s here today, and the murder of 20 innocent schoolchildren and their teachers &ndash;- this country took up the cause of protecting more of our people from gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Families that know unspeakable grief summoned the courage to petition their elected leaders &ndash;- not just to honor the memory of their children, but to protect the lives of all our children.&nbsp;And a few minutes ago, a minority in the United States Senate decided it wasn&rsquo;t worth it.&nbsp;They blocked common-sense gun reforms even while these families looked on from the Senate gallery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;A majority of senators voted &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to protecting more of our citizens with smarter background checks,&rdquo; President Obama said. &ldquo;But by this continuing distortion of Senate rules, a minority was able to block it from moving forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/senate-votes-block-expanded-background-checks-gun-sales\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by Americans whose lives and families had been forever changed by gun violence, President Obama spoke from the Rose Garden about today&rsquo;s Senate vote on expanded background checks for gun sales. A few months ago, in response to too many tragedies &#8212; including the shootings of a United States Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, who&rsquo;s here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}