Manchin-Toomey is dead, 54-46.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93F00D20130417
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Despite emotional pleas from families of victims of the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings and broad public support nationwide, the plan to extend background checks to online and gun-show sales failed on a 54-46 vote, six votes short of the 60-vote hurdle needed to clear the Senate.
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