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    Default Budget deal..what is in it

    The Fix NCIS act is in this bill....

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory

    "Guns: The bill includes the Fix NICS Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that is used to screen U.S. gun buyers. It provides for incentives and penalties to encourage federal agencies and states to send records to the federal database in an effort to prevent the type of oversight that preceded last year’s church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Tex. Democrats pushed for more aggressive gun laws, including universal background checks, but only won a minor concession: Language in the report accompanying the bill clarifying that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can, in fact, conduct research into gun violence. A long-standing rider known as the Dickey Amendment, which states that no CDC funds “may be used to advocate or promote gun control,” has been interpreted in the past to bar such research. The amendment itself remains."

    The bill summary.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...ouse-bill/4477
    Last edited by led0321; 03-22-2018 at 09:32 AM.

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