04/09/2024
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"I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. By doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorseme..."
"Why? Why are we here? If not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through? What Uvalde is going through?"
"Mr. President, the 14 kids dead in elementary school in Texas right now -- what are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store, to gun down African American pat..."
"But we might be able to do a piece of Manchin-Toomey. And so despite my frustration with the Republican Party, I'm willing to work with them to get a piece of that bill done."