Political Quotes

“I rise in support of my Connecticut colleagues in their effort to pass the bipartisan background check bill, H.R. 8. I want to thank my friends Senator Murphy and Senator Blumenthal for their leadership on this issue. I am sure, as Senator Blumenthal just recounted, that tragic experience at Sandy Hook Elementary School 9 years ago is still fresh in their minds and motivates them to stand up, time and again, and to speak out on behalf of the families who lost their children and those wonderful educators and administrators who gave their lives that day. What will it take? Is there a crime involving guns in America so horrific that finally we will say enough? Other countries have. Australia did. They had a terrible shooting. They came to the conclusion that this was just unacceptable in their nation. They wouldn't let it become normal. Some States have done that. Connecticut did after Sandy Hook. They said our State will be different. We are not going to stand just idly by. But when it comes here to Washington in this national legislature, in this Senate, it appears there is nothing sufficiently awful, so specifically outrageous that it will move us to act. This last week, it was Oakland County, MI, Oxford High School. Four children got up in the morning, blurry-eyed, brushed their teeth, grabbed their lunches, headed off to school--and never came home. That was the reality of this.…”