03/09/2011
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"The law-abiding citizens would not be blocked from getting a gun through a background check. Is that correct?"
"A hundred Americans dying every day. So that means as we sit here today, there are Americans being killed by guns."
"I believe your statistics of 3 million people effectively being stopped through gun checks, and the universal background check bill is a bill of common sense."
"I thank Chair Thompson for the years of work. I have had the privilege of working with him, and that we have come to this point is very much attributable to his persistence."