Chuck Schumer

It poses no threat to millions and millions of law-abiding gun owners across the country who do have the right to bear arms, while keeping guns out of the hands of those who are most likely to misuse them to terrible ends.

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 am definitely here to remember those that were killed that day as well as to honor each survivor.

However, there are still about 1.5 million mental health records missing, according to GAO estimates.

Just having it in place and on the statute books is not enough.

Clearly, our Nation's gun laws are under assault enough as it is, so we should not make matters worse by shrinking from the full enforcement of the laws that remain on the books.

NICS has consistently been viewed as an appropriate way to carry out the Government's aim of protecting individuals' rights and keeping people safe.

We might be able to reach some common ground here in terms of at least moving parts of our legislation.

I believe there is a right to bear arms, but I also believe it is not absolute.

Knowledge of any other members of other departments with border responsibility, DHS or State, briefed on the program or these tactics?

I think we have to look at the whole things.

He was deputy chief of staff to Attorney General Mukasey.

Could you go back and look at the files or have someone do that and get us information on whether these people were part of briefings, part of meetings that might have related to that program, Wide Receiver?

You may have recalled that.

I want to be clear about that premise.

I think we can infer that both Mr. Friedrich and Mr. O'Connor were likely to have received the material.

This indicates that gun walking might have been discussed at this meeting as well.

These new false IDs pose a major threat to the security of the U.S. as anyone who is on a no-fly list and terrorist watchlist can now evade our defenses by using these licenses to fly on airplanes with a false identity.

This is just what we need because you could have a whole lot of booths on the Canadian side; you cannot on the New York side, just by the geography.

I am asking you to begin installing integrated electronic ID readers at TSA security points that can electronically scan and verify that the identification provided by an airline passenger in order to board a flight is indeed valid lawful…

There is no better answer than that. Yes and yes.

I think your administration is doing--I want to pay a compliment on immigration enforcement because your administration is the first really to take a rational approach to this issue.

But I am sure you would have no problem working with our New York schools to make them safer.

We must find a way to target this lifeblood of the Iranian regime.

The Iranian regime, however, continues to sell 2.3 million barrels per day of crude oil, which generates over $80 billion annually for the Iranian treasury.