Political Quotes

“it is most fortuitous that you are in the chair today when I come to put into the Senate Record information that deals with legislation you and I were directly involved in last December. It is a piece of legislation--an amendment to the Senate crime bill--which bears your name. The Feinstein amendment, a proposed amendment in that bill--I should say a portion of that bill, now--by your own words, selectively bans some 19 assault weapons from being manufactured, distributed, and sold in this market. Following that debate and the give-and-take that you and I had here on the Senate floor, on December 6 I wrote to the Director, John Magaw, of BATF, and asked him to analyze your legislation to see if any other firearms might be banned by that legislation. He analyzed it, and in a letter of December 20, returned to me a listing of some 29 additional weapons that he felt fall under your legislation and could be, and more than likely would be, banned based on their writing of rule and regulation and the interpretation of your legislation.”