{"id":607489,"date":"2021-07-31T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607489"},"modified":"2021-07-31T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:21:24","slug":"atf-nominee-david-chipman-facing-uncertain-path-to-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atf-nominee-david-chipman-facing-uncertain-path-to-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF nominee David Chipman facing uncertain path to confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatf-nominee-david-chipman-facing-uncertain-path-to-confirmation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607489&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2476832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2476832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former special agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) David Chipman testifies during a hearing before the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force January 23, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:12 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 31, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s nominee for head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), David Chipman, is reportedly losing ground in the Senate on his path to confirmation. On Friday, the gun control activist received rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his views on firearms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis nominee has a long track record of open hostility to law-abiding American\u2019s Second Amendment rights,\u201d said McConnell. \u201cHe is a loud, proud, would be gun grabber who has made it a personal mission to erode the Bill of Rights for the citizens of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell follows many others in their criticisms of Chipman as the nominee. In order for him to be confirmed by the Senate, either every Democrat must be on board or more moderate Republicans have to join in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A stalwart moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) has voted for every other nominee put forward by Biden when they\u2019ve gone to a vote. However, she is a hard no on Chipman, citing Maine\u2019s embrace of the Second Amendment as why she can\u2019t support the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Maine\u2019s other Senator Independent Angus King, who caucuses with the Democrats, has not yet announced if he plans on supporting Chipman. Meanwhile, Jon Tester\u2019s (D-Mont.) vote is also uncertain. Over two dozen Montana Republican legislators have signed a letter urging Tester to openly say he does not want Chipman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, 11 of my colleagues and I announced that if David Chipman is confirmed as Director of the ATF, we will introduce articles of impeachment against him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xwdbv2WIr\">https:\/\/t.co\/2xwdbv2WIr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pqnNIC71Iv\">pic.twitter.com\/pqnNIC71Iv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Rosendale (@RepRosendale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRosendale\/status\/1419668384153837571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderate Democrat Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Republican Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) are also both maybes. Other than Murkowski, every Republican has come out as a hard no on Chipman.<\/p>\n<p>His desire to ban the AR-15 in the U.S. is said to be what earned him the ire of Texas Republican Ted Cruz. Cruz said he believes a ban is ineffective and politically unpopular after Democrats failed to pass a ban the last time they controlled the Senate in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, with no Republicans stating publicly they will vote yes, it leaves Democrats having to look at getting all 50 of their senators on their side in order to give Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote. Chipman has spent time meeting with Murkowski, Manchin and Tester to try and secure their votes to move forward on confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is not planning on pulling his nomination and have signaled they believe they can get 50 senators on board. If confirmed, Chipman would be the first ATF nominee successfully placed in the role since 2013.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden\u2019s ATF nominee, David Chipman, is a far-left radical who wants to trample Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>His nomination proves that Biden is committed to a far-left agenda of dismantling constitutional freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOP (@GOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOP\/status\/1419710360131719174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/the-biden-administration-continues-to-push-vaccines\/\">The Biden Administration Continues To Push Vaccines<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former special agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) David Chipman testifies during a hearing before the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force January 23, 2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}