Check this roll call article out
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Senate Democratic aides close to the issue said Reid is planning to try to get a bill to the floor as early as June. In the meantime, Reid will be pressing Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — who have been fleshing out bipartisan aspects of the issue over the past year — to translate their blueprint for reform into a bill.
Reid is “pretty serious about this,” one aide said. “We’ve got all of June and most of July to get this done, and then September, but that’s less realistic.”
A source close to negotiations said Schumer and Graham have already held their own meetings with a handful of Republicans they thought may be open to the idea of co-sponsoring, including Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), and none of them have panned out. Reactions from those GOP Senators ranged from, “Hell no” to “I’ll probably support the bill, but I’m not going to co-sponsor,” the source said.
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