Why a 2013 gun bill is key to understanding Joe Manchin III, today’s most powerful senator
Nobody was more sensitive to the political peril of gun control than Sen. Joe Manchin III, a Democrat from deep-red West Virginia and a proud gun owner. But standing on the Senate floor five months after 20 children and six adults were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., he told colleagues…
bubmagJuly 13, 2021