GOP senator won’t support gun violence reduction bill until he sees text

Published June 19, 2022 12:00am ET



One Republican said he thinks most items in a proposed gun violence reduction bill are “unobjectionable,” but he won’t say where he stands until there is text to talk about.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Shannon Bream on Sunday that he’s surprised there hasn’t been any hard documentation to come out of the discussions to address gun violence. A week after 20 Democrats and Republicans said they had a framework to address gun violence, lawmakers still don’t have any written proposal, Lee said.

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