15 Republican senators vote to break a filibuster to advance gun safety bill
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 6/23/2022, 1:02 p.m.
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.