“When the Senate had 60 votes, as we did until Ted Kennedy died, that’s how we got the Affordable Care Act passed. Democrats didn’t miss an opportunity to do something on gun control because there wasn’t an opportunity to do something on gun control. “When you have 60 votes, you have votes in places that are very rural,” Kessler said. Some 13 Senate Republicans voted for it, while eight Senate Democrats voted against it. “I believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in CNN’s town hall on guns Wednesday.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 12:11 UTC