The U.S. House passed expanding funding for federal background checks 260-145. The measure increases funding by $19.5 million to make the background checks more comprehensive including covering more mental health data. This comes at a time of last weeks deadly shooting in California.
Once again it was the democratic minority in the House that furnished the majority vote. 184 democrats voted for the bill and 76 republicans did likewise. This is a common sense measure and the majority of republicans voted against it including all 5 U.S. reps from Louisiana. Steve Scalise, Charles Boustany, John Fleming, Bill Cassidy and Vance McAllister all voted no. Louisiana's democratic rep Cedric Richmond voted yes with the majority.
The 5 necons from Louisiana who voted no have no creditibility on gun control, even the basis safety concerns. This is not the first time that the democratic minority in the U.S. House has furnished the majority vote to pass common sense legislation. (see my commentary titled, The U.S. House Passes A Clean Debt Limit dated 2/15/14) The 76 republicans who voted yes with the democrats showed they understand common sense issues.
Louisiana rep. Bill Cassidy who voted against the measure is the same Bill Cassidy who is running against Senator Mary Landrieu. The state does not need a republican senator who votes no just because he and his party has nothing to offer America and its people.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
