On the recordFebruary 28, 2019
I appreciate my chairman, but I disagree, because there is still the 30-day limitation. The 30-day limitation is not done here, and so there is and could be a problem if it was done. I still have my time, and there is no time remaining. The issue here is that if it is approved after the 30 days, then this bill does not fix it. The easy fix here was an amendment we offered that simply extended it for 60 days. That is your fix. Instead, we go through this where there can be, as all good things lawyerly, we can have lawyerly disagreements. I think in the end, when you actually go back and look at this, you will see that there is an interpretation problem here. The 30 days still exists. Why could we have not just simply extended the NICS date for 60 days instead of 30 days instead of going through this exercise of legal interpretation? Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
