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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">Controversial gun legislation cleared a key Senate hurdle Thursday, as lawmakers
voted 68-31 to start debate on the package which includes expanded background
checks and new penalties for gun trafficking.Senate Democrats, joined by
16 Republicans, were able to overcome an attempted filibuster by GOP senators
opposed to the current bill. Those senators could still slow-walk the debate,
but the Senate will eventually begin votes on amendments -- one of
which is considered crucial to winning support for a final vote.The White
House called Thursday's tally an "important" but "early milestone," as both
sides of the issue prepare for a grueling debate -- one that
is being waged in Washington and on the airwaves. The amendment likely
to be at the front of the line is one from Sens.
Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., which would scale back the
call for universal background checks. The plan would expand checks to gun-show
and Internet sales, but exempt certain personal transactions.The National
Rifle Association and other gun-rights supporters voiced concern about the
new proposal, saying it still goes too far. But the plan, offered
by two lawmakers who are at the conservative end of their respective
parties, could help ease opposition ahead of a final vote.The legislation
required at least 60 votes to advance Thursday.If the bill ultimately passes
the Senate, it would still have to pass the Republican-dominated House."The
hard work st
l on Sunday.Land invasions are nothing new
in Venezuela. What's different now is that people are invading valuable
properties in city centers.All the squatting riles Rosa Contrera, a 57-year-old
housewife who walked past the invaders, shaking her head. The day before,
people from the apartment block adjacent to hers attacked the invaders with
Molotov cocktails."This is what Chavismo has created: people who expect
handouts," said Contrera, a Capriles supporter. "A country doesn't advance
with that mentality."The government says Venezuela's poverty rate dropped
from more than 50 percent to 21 percent under Chavez's leadership, though
there is still plenty of misery.Lake Valencia has been rising few feet
a year and swallowed up Antonio Rojas' home last year."We filled out
all the forms but in the end we didn't get a house,"
said the wiry 67-year-old, who works at a nursery earning the equivalent
of $17 a day at the official exchange rate and $5 on
the black market.At a squatter's settlement outside Tacarigua, a town on
Valencia's southern outskirts built around a sugar cane mill, Rojas and
his wife share a dirt-floor, aluminum shack with their 7-year-old son, Gregorio.
The boy doesn't go to school because there are none nearby.They have
neither water nor sewage service. Dirty dishes are piled on a kitchen
table. Burned garbage litters the yard.When a reporter visited, the family
hadn't had power for a week. They siphon it off a nearby
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