we really do need Congress to act.

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.

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.

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…

We`re not going to change the constitution, we`re enforcing it.

there can`t be any meaningful gun control without the support of Congress, which Biden does not have on this issue.

background checks actually do keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn`t have them.

un-American, sick, and Jim Crow on steroids.

I think we have to, you know, turn the screws rather harder if we`re going to get Prime Minister Abiy to stop this.

doing a lot of things that haven`t been announced publicly.

Folks, this shouldn't be a red or blue issue. It's an American issue. We're not changing the Constitution. We're enforcing it. Be reasonable.

the Biden administration has tried to put pressure on Prime Minister Abiy to lighten up on the quite brutal repression that is underway in the Tigray area.

Today, the department is announcing, as I just did, a major crackdown on stem the flow of guns used to commit violent crimes. We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans, as fellow Americans to fulfill the…

Crime is historically rises during the summer. And as we emerge from this pandemic of the country opening back up again, traditional summer -- summer spike may be more pronounced than it usually would be.

Unfortunately, a Democratic stand to protect our democracy met a solid Republican wall of opposition. It was the suppression of a bill to end voter suppression, another attack on voting rights that is sadly not unprecedented.

This is a lifelong mission of his to expand the access to the franchise, that he would do anything it would require to defend this to expand the voting rights.

It is war crimes. I think it reeks of genocide, and there`s simply no excuse for what the Ethiopian government is doing right now.