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Who Has A Committee Meeting At 1am?

May 21, 2025 by 4 Comments

The quick answer to the headline is the House Rules Committee. They are scheduled to meet to discuss the budget reconciliation bill aka A Big, Beautiful Bill at 1am Eastern on Wednesday morning.

And here I have thought the House Budget Committee reconvening their markup meeting on the budget reconciliation bill at 10pm Sunday night was a bit unusual.

If you are awake and want to watch the sausage being – I mean legislation considered – there will be video.

Will Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5) listen to gun rights groups and include the portions of the Hearing Protection Act and the SHORT Act as requested? She has been pro-2A in the past so there is some, if slim, hope. It is interesting to note that Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is a member of the committee as he has been supportive of both measures.

In a tweet on X from Erich Pratt of Gun Owners of America which featured a video of an interview with Mr. Roy, it was noted that a lot of progress had been made on suppressors and they are still working of SBRs and SBSs.

I guess we may know tomorrow morning when we get up to have our morning coffee.

While it appears that many state level groups and others such as GOA are going for the whole enchilada, i.e., SBRs, SBS, AND suppressors, it appears the NRA has given up on anything more than suppressors. This is from my reading of an alert sent out on Monday urging people to call representatives to push for the inclusion of suppressors in the bill. In my opinion – and it is only my opinion – this is a mistake as a win on the whole lot would galvanize the grass roots and mark the NRA as hard-core supporters of gun rights.

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4 thoughts on “Who Has A Committee Meeting At 1am?”

  1. This bill needs to pass and soon. Introducing extra stuff at this late date puts you in the same category as the SALT guys. Don’t be those guys. I support the substance but now is not the time. Pass the damn bill.

  2. Could not agree more with your final comment. After dropping my NRA membership, of many years, I decided to accept the reduced rate offer a few months ago, to see how things would go. Unfortunately, it seems while the other RKBA groups are in the fight all the way, the NRA still holds back. Definitely not what I was hoping for.

    1. This is why I respond to those “Upgrade Your Membership” emails since I’m Life by taking out memberships in the OTHER orgs.

      The NRA is poking people with fingers when it NEEDS to be using a fist, to riff on Heinz Guderian.

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