NEW: Schumer tells Democrats to 'keep talking' to GOP about gun legislation
"We know we're not going to get everything we want," Schumer said on the Senate floor.
"We know that the push for even more meaningful gun safety will continue after this debate, but making real progress is very important," he added.I'm encouraging my Democratic colleagues to keep talking, to see if Republicans will work with us to ... help stop gun violence," he said. Schumer added that Sen. Chris Murphy , who is helping lead gun reform talks, "has asked for some space to have the bipartisan talks continue."A bipartisan group of senators is working to craft narrowly focused gun control legislation that can win over Senate Republicans,The bipartisan group is amenable to compromise, even if the result falls short of what many Democrats want, Treene notes.
"I am so willing to bend over backward to find a compromise. … I need a vote that just shows progress," Murphy said last month.
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