"The issue that we have here is that we don’t have a bill," Utah
Republican Senator Mike Lee told Fox News Sunday.
"I kept asking to see text and it became apparent that they
didn’t have a bill and in fact they don’t have a deal at all,”
Lee said.
Lawmakers have been under pressure to reduce gun violence after
two mass shootings last month at a grocery store in Buffalo, New
York, and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Last week, John Cornyn, the lead Republican negotiator in U.S.
Senate efforts to craft a bipartisan gun safety bill, walked out
of the talks, while the lead Democrat remained optimistic that
lawmakers could vote on legislation before leaving for a
two-week July 4 recess.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have an agreement on a series of
"very broad promises,” Lee said. "But on the most contentious,
controversial, potentially impactful provisions there is no
language."
(Reporting by Heather Timmons; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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