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☆ Analysis: Why Biden pushes an assault weapons ban despite the political odds
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Jeff Mason Richard Cowan | Jeff Mason | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
Biden personally adds mentions of an assault weapons ban to his planned public remarks, a White House official said. "We're going to ban assault weapons again," he said on Thursday at a Lunar New Year reception at the White House, to applause. As vice president, he spearheaded a set of gun control proposals for Barack Obama after Sandy Hook that included a recommendation for a new assault weapons ban. However the Quinnipiac and other polls show that just about half of Americans support an assault weapons ban. Even though an all-out assault weapons ban seems unlikely, a very thin Republican majority in the House means that something more modest, such as raising the age to 21 to buy assault weapons, could be possible, the University of New Hampshire's Scala said.
☆ Analysis: How Congress might look for Biden post midterms: The good, bad, and the ugly
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Jeff Mason Richard Cowan Heather Timmons | Jeff Mason | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
However, the first two years of Biden's presidency proved one-party control of Congress and the White House does not mean the president gets what he wants. Any impeachment would then progress to a trial in the Senate, where a Democratic majority is likely to shut it down. The Senate Majority Leader, picked from the party that holds a majority of the Senate's 100 seats, decides what the chamber votes on, or never considers. Republicans likely would push hard for deep domestic spending cuts and making some tax cuts from the 2017 tax bill set to expire at the end of 2025 permanent. Whether a House Biden impeachment process proceeds to a Senate trial would rest on the shoulders of the Senate Majority Leader, likely to be Kentucky's Mitch McConnell.
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