Wyden Calls For Gun Violence Research Funding

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is calling for immediate funding of a gun violence research agenda at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Joining a group of Democratic senators and national researchers, Wyden claimed a 1996 Republican appropriations rider prohibiting federal funds from being used to advocate or promote gun control has been misconstrued as a ban on funding scientific research into the causes of gun violence.  The author of the original rider, former Arkansas Representative Jay Dickey, now supports funding CDC gun-violence research and has stated that the 20-year-old rider should not stand in the way.

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