I expect that in the coming months this summer before the count -- the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, as well, the infrastructure bill, as well as voted on the budget resolution. And that`s when they`ll -- but…
This reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up in the United States Congress. We actually worked with everyone. We got a bipartisan deal and bipartisan deals means compromise.
Zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. If you will sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully failed to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a…
I`ve been at this a long time. And there are things we know that work to reduce gun violence and violent crime and things that we don`t know about. But things we know about, school is off for the summer, teenagers are in tough…
This idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration, it did not generate mass incarceration. What happened is the mass incarceration occurred by the states setting mandatory sentences.
If you willfully sell a gun to someone who`s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with tracing request from inspectors, my…
Look, the bipartisan bill from the very beginning, it was understood there’s going to have to be the second part of it. I’m not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest I have -- that I proposed.
I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.
It’s zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. I repeat zero tolerance. If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background…
This shouldn`t be a red or blue issue. It`s an American issue. We`re not changing the Constitution. We`re unfortunate. We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans as fellow Americans to fulfill the first…