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Jared Polis: Sadly, the gentleman from Alabama is unable to reserve or stop criminals from legally acquiring weapons or terrorists…

On the recordJuly 7, 2016
Sadly, the gentleman from Alabama is unable to reserve or stop criminals from legally acquiring weapons or terrorists from silently assembling arsenals to conduct terrorist acts in our country. The only way the gentleman from Alabama can prevent those acts is to prevent the obstruction of this body by granting this very simple unanimous consent request that is about to be made by the gentleman from Florida. I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado
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Jul 7, 2016

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