15 Republican senators vote to break a filibuster to advance gun safety bill

CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 6/23/2022, 1:02 p.m.
Fifteen Republican senators joined all Democrats to break a filibuster Thursday on bipartisan gun safety legislation, clearing the way for …
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was one of 15 Senate Republicans to vote to break a filibuster on a gun safety bill. Mandatory Credit: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

Originally Published: 23 JUN 22 13:03 ET

By Ali Zaslav, CNN

(CNN) -- Fifteen Republican senators joined all Democrats to break a filibuster Thursday on bipartisan gun safety legislation, clearing the way for the package to pass out of the chamber before the end of the week.

The list includes the same GOP senators who voted to advance the bill on Tuesday, with the addition of Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, one of the original supporters of the framework, who missed the first procedural vote earlier in the week.

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Senate minority leader

Joni Ernst of Iowa

Todd Young of Indiana

Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska

John Cornyn of Texas

Thom Tillis of North Carolina

Roy Blunt of Missouri

Richard Burr of North Carolina

Bill Cassidy of Louisiana

Susan Collins of Maine

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina

Rob Portman of Ohio

Mitt Romney of Utah

Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

Of the 15, four -- Blunt, Burr, Portman and Toomey -- are retiring at the end of their terms.

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