GOP keeps in place funding ban on gun violence research

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15. 45,000 people a year were dying without healthcare, hence healthcare reform was the priority.

Considering what little time they had with a filibuster proof majority (24 nonconsecutive working days), Dems could not do everything. It was not for lack of will or motivation.

And no, Democrats could not have made Republicans "physically stand up on the floor of the House." First of all, the filibuster applies to the Senate, not the House. And second, the filibuster rules allow the senator to filibuster anonymously and silently.

How old are you? How do you not know this?

And no, trying to pass a law that 90% of Americans support, like universal background checks, after the slaughter of 24 at an elementary school, is not "political grandstanding." It is doing the right thing. Dems should keep trying to do what they can, just like marriage equality advocates kept trying, even when it looked hopeless.