(Roll Call) — Next week, April 4, will mark 50 years since a young leader, the 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered by a gunman — his vision of justice and unity incomplete. His granddaughter Yolanda Renee King predicted in her speech Saturday: “We are going to be a great generation.”
It was partly partisan politics that drove protesters and counter-protesters in the global “March for Our Lives” on Saturday. Many who traveled to Washington or their town squares demanded action on school safety, gun control and more.
But to Washington lawmakers, of both parties and on either side of the gun issue, who just managed to pass a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill to keep the government running that same week and may not pass any other major legislation for the rest of the year, it was a rebuke.
Click to continue reading. By Mary C. Curtis – Mar 28, 2018