Angie Craig: “I and others have watched very closely as the staff of the Judiciary Committee has assembled this legislation from the…”

“I and others have watched very closely as the staff of the Judiciary Committee has assembled this legislation from the principles the President laid down and from the principles the majority leader laid down so that no civil liberties in this country would be trampled. I can say that Senator Hatch in due caution has approached this in a way to assure that would not happen. He has now just put into the Record a 10-point letter of May 25 from the President establishing the principles that the President thought were necessary in antiterrorist legislation. None of those principles embody the four or five amendments that at the last moment are trying to be crammed into this bill. They are primarily gun control amendments. They are primarily amendments that would trample all over the feet of second-amendment-right citizens who are law abiding in every respect.”