Chuck Schumer: “second, I thank both Senator Kyl and Senator Feinstein for the passion, the erudition, the conviction, and for the…”

“second, I thank both Senator Kyl and Senator Feinstein for the passion, the erudition, the conviction, and for the cause. It is, obviously, wise to delay this. I know we may be back for another day. Maybe we can all come together. I plead with them to consider a proposal of making this a Kyl-Feinstein statute, as opposed to a Kyl-Feinstein constitutional amendment, where I think it might get close to unanimous support on the floor. I thought the debate we were having and may well continue to have, at least to my young years in the Senate, was one of the best times of the Senate, where we each talked about the issue with our concerns, our intelligence, and our passions. We tried to meet the issue head on. I thank both the Senator from Arizona and the Senator from California for their good work on this and hope we can come together on some sort of compromise on an issue about which we all care so much.”