legislation. joining us now, amy klobuchar. senator, it is great to see you. thanks, rachel. so obviously you weren t preparing for this hearing knowing there would be a mass shooting at the moment you were working to confirm the next person. i wonder if that is going to affect the way you and your colleagues approach not only this hearing but the question of policy today? i literally couldn t believe some of my colleagues, senator cruz who preceded me are railing against this nominee, mr. chipman, by the way 25 years of experience with the agency. investigated the world trade center bombing, investigated the oklahoma city bombing. completely qualified for this job because he holds views that
has entered into our military. including the senior flight officer rank. i encourage people to contact my offense wow office, they ve been exposed to this kind of training that says one race is in her own privileged or other races are and hurriedly victimized, we got good feedback. some people are sending in their concerns. i want to say again tonight, if you re out there anywhere around the world and you re worried that you re not focused on training to fight and we make our country s wars but rather to be indoctrinated along the lines that the democrats are proposing in congress so often, please contact my office so we can actually do something about it in the congress. laura: great to see you, thank you so much for holding mr. chipman s see some fire on this. less than 24 hours, the biden administration went from dismissing the need for the u.s.-led covid origins investigation to kind of green lighting one. the president believes there needs to be an independent investigation, o
David Chipman, President Biden’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said at his confirming hearing on Wednesday he supports banning the AR-15.
President Biden is nominating David Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the commander-in-chief announced Thursday.
Chipman would replace ATF acting director Regina Lombardo. During his time as a senior policy adviser with Giffords, he spent considerable effort pushing for greater regulation and enforcement on ghost guns, changes to the background check system and measures to reduce the trafficking of illegal firearms.
Chipman spent 25 years as an agent at the ATF. During his career, he worked on stopping a trafficking ring that sent illegal firearms from Virginia to New York, and served on the ATF’s SWAT team.
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In what appeared to be the most uncoordinated situation by agencies under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, confusion, panic-buying and an attempt to profiteer by marketers ruled the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, yesterday, following a template released by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), which increased petrol pump price to N212.68 per litre. x
Long queues, traffic jam, an increase in the cost of transportation and the immediate shutdown of most petrol stations were the result of the situation across most parts of the country. However, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and PPPRA tried to manage the situation, in