"the core of which was to keep an operable firearm in the home for the purpose of self-defense."
"I would urge anyone interested in assessing what the proper standard is for protecting our right to keep and bear arms to watch Ms. Hupp's testimony"
"Are you aware of any serious empirical basis for the proposition that significantly restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms actually results in reducing violent crime?"
"I think that may actually be an area of potential bipartisan cooperation."
"Thank you for coming. Thank you for standing for your lost loved ones."
"After that 15 or 20 minutes discussion of Benghazi, do I understand your testimony correctly that neither of you had any subsequent conversations with the President the rest of that day and that eveni..."
"A number of terrorists murdered four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. To the extent you are able in an open hearing, I would like to know what our progress is in tracking down those terrorist..."
"If--and again this is a hypothetical--at 9:42 p.m. you had received a direct order to have boots-on-the-ground to defend our men and women there, what is the absolute fastest that that could have been..."
"So if I understand your testimony correctly, in your military judgment there was no way conceivably to get troops on the ground sooner than 13 to 15 hours?"
"In your judgment, would additional troops on the ground in Benghazi have prevented the loss of life from the assault that we sustained?"
"If the State Department had requested additional security so that there were additional boots-on-the-ground in Benghazi, is it your military judgment that that would have prevented the loss of four li..."