President Obama urges Congress to vote on common sense gun measures

President Obama traveled to Connecticut yesterday to make his case for common sense gun policy after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

The President is asking for a simple up or down vote on the proposals currently put before Congress.

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"I know many of you in Newtown wondered if the rest of us would live up to the promises we made in those dark days ... once the television trucks left, once the candles flickered out, once the teddy bears were gathered up," Obama was to say in prepared remarks. "We will not walk away from the promise we've made."

Obama is hoping to salvage the proposal for background checks on all gun buyers to try to ensure that criminals and others prohibited from buying firearms cannot get them. There are not yet enough votes in the Senate for expanded background checks as Democrats seek Republican votes.

Around a dozen Republican senators led by Rand Paul of Kentucky have threatened to use procedural tactics to try to prevent any votes on the gun measures.

"You deserve better," Obama will say. "You deserve a vote."