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. mr. leahy: mr. president, earlier this week i spoke about the need for the senate to consider legislation to help increase america s safety by reducing gun violence. i came on the floor of the senate and i urged my yellow senators to abandon efforts to filibuster proceeding to this bill. the senate should not have to overcome a filibuster to respond to the call for action to response to the gun violence they re experiencing. mr. president, i have the privilege of being the longest serving member of this body, and i ve watched debate on so many issues. if there was ever an issue where all 100 of us should vote yes or no, it s here. i was encouraged by the comments of a number of senate republicans that they are prepared to debate this matter and will not support this wrong-headed filibuster. even the wall street journal he wouldized against a filibuster yesterday. in a lead editorial titled the g.o.p. s gun control misfire. i don t agree with much, but i would
as possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage and that s what allowed the gunmen in aurora wrote to shoot 70 people. 70 people, killing 12, in a matter of minutes. weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. the majority of americans realize that. by the way, so did ronald reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the second amendment who wrote to congress in 1994 urging them this is ronald reagan speaking urging them to listen to the public and to law enforcement community to support a ban on the further manufacture of military style assault weapons. [applause] finally, congress needs to help rather than hinder law- enforcement as it does its job. we should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals. we should severely punish anyone who helps them do this. since congress has not confirmed a director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco,
i came to this work because i was working against violence against women. stories are these really about violence against women. they are about incarceration, police brutality, but they are also about violence against women. particularly violence against black women which is the target of the prison nation. i am humbled to be here. i so appreciate the work that you have done. i look forward to your leadership because you are organizing a world that i want to live in. thank you. [applause] we will pick up there. i have 493 questions or something. we will get to do four or five of them probably. i want to leave some room for the audience. i want to start where beth ended. the notion of violinist against black women violence against black women. i can t think about much of anything without thinking of it through the lens of 12 years a slave. if you have not yet seen it, you must. there s a lot of discourse publicly about it at this moment, but for me, perhaps one of the mo
government, they do not have the available. part of it was, there is great history there. even more secularized groups found it easier to collaborate in those ways. some of the changes were called forth by the african- american pastors that would be the first door and knocked on what somebody was released or in need of service. i remember tony evans meeting in the office with the president and td jakes and others of the frontline. they may not have some the sophistication of these established charities but they have capacity. why would they be excluded? my question is this, there are differences. dr. diiulio wrote a textbook you would transfer. i want to know basically would it have stayed the same system since there are so many differences? what do you as a director pass on to the next? headaches. [laughter] horrors. messes to clean up. you cannot possibly look back. i said at the outset, what unites us is a lot bigger that divide us. the desire to put them on a level