Mark Kelly

It's ridiculous. I mean, that these kids have to live in a country. These kids in Santa Fe or Parkland or 22 other places around the country just this year alone, that they have to assume that kind of risk when they go to school.

I heard somewhat positive things from the governor and the lieutenant governor of Texas and Ted Cruz as well.

We are fighting against the NRA's top three priorities which is concealed carry, reciprocity, legalization of silencers, and getting rid of -- they want to arm teachers essentially and have more guns in schools that's certainly not the…

I think he said background checks passed for gun sales. That was on a Tuesday. By Thursday, he completely I guess lost interest and about two months later he was the speaker at the National Rifle Association's convention in Dallas.

It's our moral obligation to protect the vulnerable. The adult, the politicians are responsible for safety of our children.

I think there is total agreement on this Committee and throughout the whole Congress that we have to protect this program because it is so vital to our folks.

The process of hiring is overly complex. It is too long.

When you ask somebody, So why do we do it this way? They say, well, that is the way we have always done it.

There is no CEO serving on any private entity right now that would be looking at this and say 'I still deserve to be in charge.'

But if it is your money and you have to stay open, you do what is in the best interest of the people you serve and the money that you have to work with.

Yes, well Walmart did that a couple of years ago with semiautomatic assault rifles.

I think she gets how, you know, paralyzed Washington, D.C. is.

Well, you know, she might have been right. It has a better chance at the state level and we've experienced that, as well.

I mean, the fact that they can get into the President's office very quickly and within 24 hours get in the seemingly changes position in a tweet.

Yes. I mean, it seems like there's a big change over a 48-hour period.

We need a federal law to do that.

It's a step in the right direction... anything like support for background check bill would be great.

Rick Scott has some of the weakest gun laws in our country.

But we just have to hold people we elect to office accountable to do something, and I think these kids are going to make a difference.

But we're holding elected leaders accountable across the country. We're getting people to vote on this issue.

We need to address that. At the same time, the ability for felons suspected terrorist, domestic abusers to get their hands on incredibly powerful weapons without a background check is just crazy.

I think what we're going to see here over the -- And I hope, you know, over the weeks and months, that these kids, young adults stay engaged, push their communities in the right direction, hold their elected leaders accountable.

In my five years here, I have not seen Congress ever accept a President's budget, whether they are Republican or Democrat, straight on.

I think that Members of Congress need to remember that the President doesn't pass a budget. Congress passes the budget.

We have run out of options as a country. We have to get this fixed.