{"id":104497,"date":"2019-08-05T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104497"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:02:30","slug":"brindisi-demands-leader-mcconnell-bring-the-senate-back-to-washington-to-pass-universal-background-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104497","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi demands leader McConnell bring the Senate back to Washington to pass universal background checks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress.jpg 220w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rep-Anthony-Brindisi-Congress-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption>Rep. Anthony Brindisi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the horrific tragedies this weekend in El Paso,\nTexas, and Dayton, Ohio, Congressman Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) issued the\nfollowing statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Now Dayton becomes the\n251st mass shooting this year. Thousands upon thousands of innocent lives lost\nto gun violence since the House passed bipartisan universal background checks. Senate\nMajority Leader Mitch McConnell must act and bring the Senate back to vote on\nthis bill. I stand ready to return to Washington to support any legislation\nthat will help keep guns out of the hands of domestic terrorists. I condemn the\nrise of white nationalism and hate in our country, and our leaders from the president\non down need to be clear on this, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this Congress, Brindisi voted to support the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bipartisan\nBackground Checks Act of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the horrific tragedies this weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Congressman Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) issued the following statement: Now Dayton becomes the 251st mass shooting this year. Thousands upon thousands of innocent lives lost to gun violence since the House passed bipartisan universal background checks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}