Amy Klobuchar: “I also note that a justice from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania also testified on that day as the Republicans'…”

“I also note that a justice from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania also testified on that day as the Republicans' witness. Even though he did not agree with everything in the bill, he also said: I absolutely agree that we should have boyfriends, dating partners as a part. We have it in Pennsylvania, OK? It is important. As the sheriff said, they can shoot, and they can beat up people just like anybody else. He was, actually, the Republicans' witness at the hearing. That is why I am happy that in the House of Representatives it is a bipartisan bill, but I would like to see it as a bipartisan bill here in the Senate. Maybe they will reconsider this now. Just as the NRA has said that it was looking at the bump stock issue, maybe they would be willing to look at this issue because they wrote kind of a fast memo on this--it is only a page long--back when we had the hearing and when we were gaining support for the bill. Remember that this is very narrow legislation that is focused on making sure that dating partners are covered and also people who are not charged but convicted of stalking. They wrote that the legislation ``manipulates emotionally compelling issues such as `domestic violence' and `stalking' simply to cast as wide a net as possible. . . .'' I want to make this very clear--and I have never addressed this on the floor before--that this was really focused narrowly so that we could gain Republican support.…”