Political Quotes

“I will ask my question through the Chair. First of all, I so appreciate, as Senator Durbin said, the Senator being here this evening. I so appreciate the work that Senator Murphy has done. I appreciate so much the work he has done and the work Senator Booker and Senator Blumenthal have done. I welcome others of my colleagues to the floor. I heard the Senator from Maine, Mr. King, say something. We know what happened with this terrible shooting in Orlando with 49 innocent people killed. We know what happened in Sandy Hook. We heard Senator Kaine talking earlier today about what happened at Virginia Tech. We heard what happened in Denver when they shot the Planned Parenthood clinic. We know what happened in San Bernardino. We know what happened in southern Ohio, in a rural Appalachian area of my State where there were a number of people who were killed, and it didn't get quite as much attention. We know what happened to Tamir Rice in my city of Cleveland, a 12-year-old boy who was gunned down. What Senator King said was so interesting because we see these awful massacres of 5, 10, 20, or as many now as 49 people murdered in cold blood, but what he said was, on average, every hour a person is murdered in this country. Two or three people die from gun violence. Since the Orlando massacre, about 100 people have been killed by gunfire--twice as many as were killed in Orlando. We had an intelligence briefing from the FBI, as Senator Durbin said, about this mass killing.…”