Dianne Feinstein

Last year, Assistant Secretary David Heyman informed me that, by June 2012, the Department would have a fully operational biometric exit system.

I think there are some very good quotes in this letter.

Do you believe that it is possible to draft legislation which is reasonable, which exempts over 2,000 weapons but essentially concentrates on weapons that were designed for military use, generally high-velocity weapons?

I strongly support the Chairwoman's view on that.

The people who ran it were ignorant of the topic.

It'll go down in history because it will define the separation of powers.

Any collateral damage is unacceptable.

We did this because we heard nothing from the Intelligence Agency.

John Brennan, by all accounts, will be a strong leader, guided firmly by the law and his strong ethical code.

That has to be fixed, and changed forever.

He will seek only to provide the President, the Congress, and other leaders with his best analysis and advice.

Mental health laws are usually the preserve of the State and the local governments.

We cannot have a totally armed society.

It is my understanding that Mrs. Lanza actually gave this gun to her son.

I have become very concerned, as I looked at the bill before in 1993, at the technological improvement in these weapons over these years.

This is such a hard debate because people have such fixed positions.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and I want to thank everybody for being here, particularly our witnesses, even you, Mr. LaPierre.

Not one, Anderson. You know, the dynamic here is that there are more than half a dozen Democrats from those red states up for re-election next year, and they really feel that this is something that they don't want to touch with a 10-foot…

The message to Democrats is see what your silence does? There will be more of these.

I became mayor as a product of assassination. Both Mayor Mosconi and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed.

If anyone asked today, can you win this? The answer is, we don't know. It's so uphill.

The message to Democrats is, see what your silence does? There will be more of these.

I became mayor as a product of assassination.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. Under the previous order, the question is on agreeing to amendment No. 3439 offered by the Senator from…

We have how many minutes? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.