Let's make sure as we leave this room today, we are the oversight Committee. Our main role is to protect the privacy and the rights of every individual American citizen, of which our President happens to be.
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Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician, engineer, and former astronaut currently serving as the junior United States senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Senate in a special election held in November 2020 and officially took office on December 2, 2020. Kelly has focused on various issues during his tenure, including veterans' affairs, healthcare, and gun control, reflecting his commitment to public service and safety.
the reckless sharing of a taxpayer's private information for political purposes would be unprecedented and completely outside the bounds of Congress' role as a legislative body.
We want preexisting conditions covered. We want to make sure that employers can offer this.
It is pretty simple, and the reason that it can be affordable is because you widen the universe of who is paying premiums.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you ask somebody, So why do we do it this way? They say, well, that is the way we have always done it.
Yes, well Walmart did that a couple of years ago with semiautomatic assault rifles.