IT'S STILL ON! "Background Checks Bill Would Get A 'Couple More Votes' Now: Harry Reid"

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Background Checks Bill Would Get A 'Couple More Votes' Now: Harry Reid

by Sam Stein at Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/background-checks-bill-harry-reid_n_3223682.html

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But the bullish talk from Democrats -- from leadership on down -- is yet another indication that the party feels good about the fallout from the failed gun vote and is increasingly eager to try again.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) prompted the latest round of legislative speculation during a sit-down interview with The Las Vegas Review Journal this past weekend.

"Joe Manchin called me yesterday," Reid said. "He thinks he has a couple more votes. The one senator, Republican Senator from New Hampshire [Kelly Ayotte], has been -- wham, man has she been hit hard. She's the only senator in the northeast to vote against background checks. She went from a hugely positive number in New Hampshire -- her negatives now outweigh her positives. She is being hit every place she goes. So we are going to pick up some more votes. I may be able to get another Democrat or two. That would get us up to 57. We may only need three additional Republicans. So we'll see."

Reid notably did not name names, and a follow-up request for comment to his office went unreturned. A source close to negotiations, however, echoed the majority leader's sentiment, saying that there were two senators who opposed Manchin-Toomey who would flip once minor, superficial changes were made to the bill.

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