{"id":35058,"date":"2013-04-17T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=35058"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:48:20","slug":"huffpost-joe-manchin-says-background-check-measure-doesnt-have-the-votes-accuses-nra-of-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/04\/17\/huffpost-joe-manchin-says-background-check-measure-doesnt-have-the-votes-accuses-nra-of-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Joe Manchin Says Background Check Measure Doesn&#8217;t Have The Votes, Accuses NRA Of Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) admitted Wednesday that his background check amendment did not have the votes for passage, and said in a television appearance that the National Rifle Association was lying about his bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not get the votes today,&#8221; Manchin told NBC News. That was a big admission for the West Virginia senator, who had been pushing an amendment to strengthen background checks with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said nine amendments to the gun bill will receive votes starting at 4 p.m. Wednesday. According to a Huffington Post whip count, the bill had 52 yes votes, 40 no votes and eight undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Toomey also admitted Wednesday morning to National Review that the measure did not have the votes, but said there was a &#8220;narrow path&#8221; to get to 60.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Manchin&#8217;s office seemed to remain hopeful in a Wednesday statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/17\/joe-manchin-nra_n_3099625.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) admitted Wednesday that his background check amendment did not have the votes for passage, and said in a television appearance that the National Rifle Association was lying about his bill. &#8220;We will not get the votes today,&#8221; Manchin told NBC News. That was a big admission for the West Virginia senator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}