Chuck Schumer actually said...

"As you know, I have been working on legislation on this for a long time."

"The President himself has noted information included in our gun check system, NICS, which is supposed to prevent guns from being sold to the wrong people, is 'often incomplete and inadequate.'"

"I think we are going to try to take about 400 or 450 out of that so that we reduce by about 30, 35 percent the number of positions that require confirmation."

"Sometimes my colleagues and I--hopefully not me--will put a hold on someone's name in order to get some kind of leverage for an entirely unrelated item."