John McCain Supports Background Checks Deal

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WASHINGTON -- In the hours leading up to the Senate vote on background checks, the few remaining undecided Democrats and Republicans began announcing that they were going to oppose the bipartisan compromise worked out by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). But with just over an hour before the scheduled vote, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) broke that trend and said he was going to back it.

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