On the recordJune 15, 2016
I thank the Senator from Massachusetts for those incredibly powerful words making clear what our moral obligation is. Our moral obligation is to witness a crisis happening at our feet and do something about it. Why have this job--one of the most powerful jobs in the world--if we are not going to exercise it to try to protect Americans from harm? So our choice--my choice, the choice of Senator Blumenthal, Senator Booker--is to say enough--enough of treating these mass shootings as if they are just part of the American fabric and landscape, enough of accepting that 80 people will die every single day when there is no other country in the world in which this happens, enough of pretending like there isn't anything we can do about it. Senator Warren has outlined some basic commonsense bipartisan steps that we can take to make this better, and the Senator is so right. This is our choice. There are only 100 of us. There are only 100 of us. We can make the collective decision to do something about it. I thank the Senator from Massachusetts. I yield to the Senator from Oregon for a question without losing my right to the floor. (Mr. GARDNER assumed the Chair.)
