Reid: Senate to Take Up Gun Bills After Spring Break - Washington Wire - WSJ

Reid: Senate to Take Up Gun Bills After Spring Break - Washington Wire - WSJ
The Senate will take up gun-control legislation after it returns from its upcoming recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said Tuesday.
Senate leaders are still figuring out what form the gun legislation should take when it reaches the floor, Mr. Reid told reporters. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s measure to ban certain semiautomatic weapons known as assault weapons won’t be a part of the main bill since it doesn’t have enough bipartisan support to advance, he said.
“Right now her amendment, by the most optimistic measures, has less than 40 votes,” Mr. Reid said. “I am not going to put something on the floor that can’t succeed.” Potentially controversial bills generally need 60 votes in order to see a full vote in the chamber.
The legislation introduced by Ms. Feinstein, a California Democrat, would still get a vote as an amendment to the main bill, a senior Democratic aide said. Her measure, which would stop the sale of 157 so-called assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, was one of four bills that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on party-line votes, but Republicans and some Democrats have said they wouldn’t support Ms. Feinstein’s bill.