WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has undertaken an intense lobbying effort to get Republican senators to support gun control, officials said.
Biden has already met personally with several senators, including Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in an attempt to sway the GOP senators to support measures such as universal background checks and outlawing large capacity ammunition clips.
The Hill said Monday President Barack Obama has enlisted Biden, who has proven a top administration surrogate among his former colleagues in the Senate, to help assure passage of a gun control law in the wake of December’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
How effective Biden has been remains to be seen. None of the senators who’ve met with the vice president have indicated support for the measure.
“His effectiveness depends on how you define his role,” said GOP strategist Ken Lundberg. “So far, his work has been to rally allies and berate opponents. In that role, he’s very effective but, as for reaching out to the other side, he’s impotent. He’s breaking no new ground … .”
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
11 thoughts on “Biden lobbying Senate on gun control”
Oxymoron: criminals are law abiding citizens.
How do more laws help law abiding citizens except to restrict the rights of these people. Oh wait it makes a certain segment of the population feel good to take a crisis and make laws (which will do nothing). Who was it that said never let a crisis go to waste…
Famous community organizer I think?
It is to bad he doesn’t put his efforts into some thing that will help will the gun violence. Like enforcing current laws and better efforts on mental health. Why would any politician want to make millions of Americans criminals when they tools to fix the problems are already on the books.
Is he wearing his lobbyist money belt? – that’s how it done these days.
It’s like, Lets make a deal, we’ll give you this, if you do this. Government at it’s best…
Allen can you say compromise?
Compromise?? It all starts with a little and ends up being the whole thing. Pretty soon we will have to ask permission to flush our toilets. You want to start compromising with guns then we better start with golf clubs( we want the 9,5,3 iron), baseball bats( the only thing you can use is foam), I mean come on let’s be fair…right.
There is a line in a Star Wars movie that says, ” This is how liberty falls, with thunderous appaulse”. Ignorance at it’s highest.
Quoting “Star Wars”? Why not Bill and Ted? “Be excellent to each other!”
even though I do like your quote too, mine deals with the liberty we are being forced to lose.
@Allen-you are correct. there can be no compromise with people who lie for a living. Anyone who would trust Old Dumb Joe deserves to be cheated.
100% agreement!