Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I call on the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, to repudiate and reject it."

"I am very concerned, as my colleagues have said, about the effect on our defense industrial base."

"The failure to provide the training and career opportunities to them that are needed, I think, would be one of the most catastrophic consequences of sequester."

"This decision is a tremendous setback for an effort that really has been ongoing for years, if not decades."