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• Democrat bill overhauling U.S. election law blocked by GOP in Senate vote
  The bill, known as the For the People Act, would touch on virtually every aspect of how elections are conducted. […]
• Voting bill championed by Klobuchar blocked in Senate
  Amy Klobuchar was left to contend with a harsh reality, no matter how she framed the situation. The wide-ranging elections package she's championed in the Senate was firmly sidelined in a party-line ... […]
• Background checks blocked 300K gun sales last year
  The increase in blocked gun sales largely tracks with the record-setting surge in sales that took hold along with the coronavirus pandemic and has continued into this year, through historic ... […]
• Pelosi to create committee on Capitol riot after Republicans blocked commission, reports say
  GOP senators refused to back bipartisan body to investigate lethal Trump-inspired effort to stop certification of Biden’s win ... […]
• Democrats’ bid to rewrite US voting laws is blocked by GOP in Senate
  An effort by congressional Democrats to rewrite U.S. election and voting laws stalled in the Senate Tuesday, blocked by a wall of Republican opposition. […]
• Senate Democrats' election reform bill blocked on party-line vote
  Republicans in the narrowly divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked an election reform bill considered a top priority by Democrats seeking to offset a wave of laws passed by Republican-led state ... […]
• Election Reform Bill Blocked In Senate As It Fails To Overcome Republican Filibuster Threat
  The Senate on Tuesday blocked a massive election reform bill, as Democrats fell short of the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster threat. The Senate voted 50-50, 10 votes short of the 60 needed ... […]
• Voting legislation blocked in Senate as Republicans unite for filibuster
  Senate Republicans filibustered debate on voting rights legislation Tuesday, putting Democrats in a predicament about how to advance their high-priority bill. The vote to advance an amended version of ... […]
• Green bank blocked from funding non-renewables
  Australia's green bank will be blocked from funding non-renewable technologies after the Morrison government's bid to expand the agency's remit was thwarted in the Senate ... […]
• Background checks blocked a record 300,000 gun sales across US in 2020
  System is working overtime to prevent record number of people with dangerous prohibitors from being able to buy firearms,’ gun safety group says ... […]
• Gun background check system blocked an all-time high of 300,000 sales in US last year
  The FBI numbers provided to The Associated Press show the background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before. […]
• Background checks blocked a record high 300,000 gun sales in 2020
  The number of people stopped from buying guns thr The FBI numbers provided to The Associated Press show the background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before. […]