President Obama will speak in about 10 minutes on “common sense measures to reduce gun violence,” as the Senate goes about blocking those measures one by one. From the New York Times:

A wrenching national search for solutions to the violence that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., in December looked close to collapse on Wednesday after the Senate defeated a bipartisan amendment to gun safety legislation that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers, and it appeared poised to reject several measures to expand gun control.

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