01/26/2009
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"I have worked hard to make sure that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System was enacted, implemented, and in place."
"Making sure that guns stay out of the hands of criminals, drug addicts, violent abusers, and the mentally ill has been important to me as long as I have been in Congress."
"I do not want there to be any more 'what ifs.'"
"I would like for DOJ to be able to come up with estimates, even if they have to be explained and qualified, of compliance by State."