"Democrats need to campaign on this in 2022, because voters, you know, often don’t know the difference between the two candidates on guns because Democrats don’t run ads on it."
"I think, there are twin obligations here. One obligation is on leaders to do the right thing. But the other obligation is on voters to, you know, kick out of office, folks who over and over again, vot..."
"I think the question that Republicans will ask themselves over the course of the next few days is, will I pay a price this November? If I sit on my hands again?"
"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."
"I always like to begin where we agree, and we agree-- Republicans and Democrats on this committee--that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon and we should have a policy that makes that prospect the l..."
"The Manchin-Toomey proposal says that every commercial gun sale in this country should have a background check attached to it."
"I'm going to work with my Republican colleagues, as you heard me pleading on the Senate floor last night for their help."
"What could we do, we could probably incentivize these red flag laws that take guns away from people who are exhibiting signs of dangerous behavior, maybe we can do some small expansions of background ..."