System, and we have found many everything from drug gangs to others who have used guns that the gang members could not have bought but the straw purchaser has. Straw purchasing is done only to get a gun in the hands of somebody who is prohibited from having one. I think we need a meaningful solution to this problem. As substitute we include suggestions, senator gillibrand, to require those that traffic in firearms by wrongfully obtaining two or more firearms, and well give Law Enforcement more effective tools. The substitute also incorporates a number of changes, the result of suggestions from senator grassley and his staff. We have been working on this since january. Tried to be responsive to the ranking members concerns and suggestions, and have reached across the aisle to other senators. As a a. T. F. Whistleblower, senator grassley has been the lead senator in whistleblower legislation, was a a. T. F. Whistleblower, who testifiedlaws are toothless and they can help Law Enforcement
Good morning. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. I think, senator grassley, we can get going. First off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town so we can have a quorom to talk about guns that may not have been his number one reason for doing it, but we take ancillary benefits wherever they come from. Last week we all had the opportunity to talk about legislation before the Committee Regarding gun violence in america. We gave our speeches. And i hope we could make significant progress. Earlier this week i was joined by senator collins, senator durbin, gillibrand, and senator kirk in the introduction revised legislation to combat the straw purchasing and trafficking of firearms. Others have joined us in that bill including senator clow chew char, senator king, and ill plan when we get on it ill offer a substitute we find the provisions with the text of the leahycollins bill. I reach out to the senators, t
Untenable. We should not be basing our Economic Growth strategy on fueling higher cross cost growth in the healthcare specter. I think we would be in trouble if we were doing anything other than to try to slow the growth of our Health Care Costs rather than trying to feel additional healthcare consumption. Host . And from new york is next on the independent line. Preston, you are on the air. Caller i think you are missing a huge part of the picture. We are talking so much about how to pay for medicare and medicaid, the old healthcare thing, what percentage will states pick up, no one is talking about why it is so expensive. We spend a larger part of our gdp than any other country in the world on healthcare. Im reminded of this conference of article recently in Time Magazine called bitter pill. You can get it online. It is about the cost of health. Can you address that . Guest i agree with the caller thats an incredibly important question is what do we do with the overall increase in he
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