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Chris Murphy: “It certainly didn't sound like today. Again, I'm glad that he's endorsing, you know, the bill that I wrote, but it is…”

On the recordFebruary 20, 2018
It certainly didn't sound like today. Again, I'm glad that he's endorsing, you know, the bill that I wrote, but it is just an incremental step forward just to try to make the existing background check system work as it's intended to do.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy expresses skepticism about President Trump's commitment to meaningful gun legislation.

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