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House Democrats continued Tuesday to push Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, to immediately recall his chamber from August recess to act on gun control legislation passed by the House earlier this year.

In an attempt to up the ante and take their case directly to the American people, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, and some of his colleagues blasted McConnell for refusing to hold an immediate vote on the House-passed bills in the wake of two mass shootings that left dozens of people dead. The House bills would require background checks for all commercial and some private firearm sales and were passed earlier this year.

"It takes no courage to put on the Senate floor a bill that is supported by 90-plus percent of Americans," Hoyer said during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol. "What takes courage is to look a special interest group in the eye and say enough is enough. It is time to act."
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"Mitch McConnell isn't doing anything about it. This isn't because he doesn't know what the problem is or how to solve it. We know exactly why he isn't here," said Representative Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat. "He's waiting for the outrage to die down, for the headlines to change, the people to turn the page and think about something else."

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