{"id":197,"date":"2019-01-10T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/01\/10\/five-out-of-199-doesnt-make-bi\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:29:46","slug":"five-out-of-199-doesnt-make-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Five Out Of 199 Doesn&#8217;t Make A Bill &#8220;Bipartisan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6518,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.congress.gov\\\/bill\\\/115th-congress\\\/house-bill\\\/4240\\\/cosponsors?r=13&amp;s=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22background+checks%22%5D%2C%22party%22%3A%22Republican%22%7D&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nNow that HR 8 &#8211; the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 &#8211; has been posted to the Library of Congress website we can see who is listed as a co-sponsor. Five Republicans out of 199 Republican House members in the 116th Congress doesn&#8217;t really qualify the bill to be called &#8220;bipartisan&#8221;. It is a semantics game played by both parties and it is equally misleading whichever party sponsors a bill.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the five Republicans who are co-sponsoring the bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Rep. Mast, Brian J. [R-FL-18]<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>King, Fitzpatrick, Mast, and Upton were all co-sponsors of a similar bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/4240\/cosponsors?r=13&amp;s=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22background+checks%22%5D%2C%22party%22%3A%22Republican%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR 4240<\/a>, in the prior Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that HR 8 &#8211; the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 &#8211; has been posted to the Library&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[464,468,469,470,471,410,472,473],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bipartisan-background-checks-act-of-2019","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-brian-mast","tag-christopher-smith","tag-fred-upton","tag-hr-8","tag-peter-king","tag-pro-gun-control-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11674,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}