Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Nebraska for his question. There is something called the consolidated watch list, which is an amalgam of a number of different databases. As the Senator understands, one of them is the no-fly list. The legislation Senator Feinstein has propounded and will propound refers to those consolidated lists and then provides the ability for an individual to contest their placement on those lists, to be able to be notified why they were prohibited from buying a gun and to be able to contest that with either the agency that put them on that list or with the NICS database itself. I take seriously this issue of due process. As we know, there are certainly people who are on that list who should not be--as, frankly, there are people today on the list of those prohibited from buying guns who should not be. There are mistakes made on the NICS list today--names that get put on there that shouldn't be put on, people who may have been wrongfully convicted. I would agree with the gentleman that it is important that the legislation we come to agreement on specifically refers to the set of lists--which I would suggest mirror the consolidated database that is maintained by Federal law enforcement--and have a very explicit right to get off that list. I don't think it is impossible that we can come together on that in very short order. I yield to the Senator from Illinois for a question without losing my right to the floor.”