Senate gun bill vote 2022: Which Republicans voted for the bill?

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• Gun bill on road to passage as Senate overcomes GOP delays The Senate pushed a bipartisan gun violence bill to the brink of passage Thursday as it voted to halt a Republican filibuster against the measure, clearing the way for Congress' most far-reaching response in decades to the nation's run of brutal mass shootings. After years of GOP procedural delays that derailed Democratic efforts to curb firearms, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable after last month’s rampages in New York and Texas. It took weeks of closed-door…
• Hollywood Hunk Paul Newman as You’ve Never Seen Him Before Milton Greene/ACC Art BooksHas there been a more blindingly handsome movie star than Paul Newman? After perusing the new coffee table book Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool, a 252-page compendium of stories and photographs of the Cool Hand Luke star, the answer is a resounding no. Available now, the latest page-turner from ACC Art Books boasts a number of rare and never-before-seen photographs of the film icon from the top celebrity photographers: Terry O’Neill, Milton Greene, Eva Sereny, Al Satterwhite, Lawrence…
• Supreme Court loosens NY rules for carrying guns in public — California in the cross hairs The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday threw out a New York gun law that gave government officials broad discretion in limiting who could carry a loaded gun in public places — a clear warning shot to California and several other states that severely restrict concealed carry permits. Gun rights advocates hailed the ruling as a victory, while advocates for stricter gun laws and California’s Democratic leaders blasted the decision as a setback in efforts to tamp down gun violence after deadly…
• Apple workers vote to unionize at Maryland store Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections. The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union's announcement said. The vote could not immediately be confirmed with the National Labor Relations Board, which would have to certify the…
• Sunscreen and lifejackets — not guns — are only protection needed at a beach Residents flock to North Avenue Beach enjoying the day by Lake Michigan, Monday, June 20, 2022. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times The only protection most beachgoers need comes in some form of SPF. Or maybe a life jacket if they’re venturing out on a Jet Ski or boat. A gun has no place at the beach. Not for safety reasons, and especially not as some sort of “accessory.” It’s as simple as that. Our city is already awash in firearms in our…
• ‘Boyfriend loophole’ stalls bipartisan Senate gun deal. It’s time to close it. When 19 children were gunned down last month in their fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, the worst nightmare of each victim’s family became a horrible reality. Since that fateful day, families across the country wake up with vacillating feelings of guilt-ridden gratitude and utter fear. Silver linings seem callous in this instance, but the unspeakable tragedy has finally compelled our elected officials to take action to reform our nation’s gun laws. The “bipartisan framework” announced this week is the most…
• 3 reputed ‘sovereign citizens’ arrested in San Bernardino County with guns, explosives Three alleged “sovereign citizens”  accused of possessing firearms, ammunition and improvised explosive devices were arrested over the weekend in desert communities, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday, June 19. On Saturday, June 18, deputies were patrolling near the intersection of Twentynine Palms Highway and Old Woman Springs Road in Yucca Valley, near Joshua Tree National Park,  when a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a white Ford Taurus for suspected vehicle code violations, the Sheriff’s Department said in…
• Maryland Apple store union vote marks latest in labor drives Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here's a look at other unionization drives of the past several months: STARBUCKS In December, a Starbucks store in Buffalo became the first to unionize at one of the coffee retailer's company-owned U.S. stores. At least 150 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since then, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and at least 10 stores have rejected…
• Tourist has leg amputated after six people plowed by New York cab lifted by hero bystanders A woman had to get her leg amputated after a taxi cab jumped a curb and struck several pedestrians on Monday (Pictures: CBS New York/ Getty Images)A tourist had her leg amputated after being struck by a New York City taxi cab, which jumped a curb and mowed over three people on Monday afternoon. The woman, a 32-year-old visiting from Mexico, was among six who were harmed when a driver drove onto the sidewalk and into people sitting outside Black…
• New York passes landmark voting rights legislation New York's governor signed a law Monday intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people's voting rights because of their race. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, named after the late civil rights activist who represented Georgia in the U.S. House, makes New York one of the first states to bring back a version of a process known as “preclearance” that was gutted by a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2013. Under the federal Voting…