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A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
Proposed immigration legislation would give new immigrants "a taxpayer-funded cellular phone."
A bipartisan background check amendment "outlawed any (gun) registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text."
The Manchin-Toomey amendment "would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members" to get government approval.
"The NRA used to support expanded background checks."
Polls show that Americans "overwhelmingly" support "expanding background checks."
"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."
The immigration proposal from the Gang of Eight "is not amnesty."
Says President Barack Obama "has allowed, each year he's been here, the prosecutions of gun cases (for background check failures) to go down. ... They've declined every year since President Bush left office."
Says a gun bill before the Senate would make it a federal felony to "leave town for more than seven days, and leave someone else at home with your firearms."
Says a gun bill before the Senate "is proposing the universal registration of all firearms and their owners."
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Says it’s "an old wives’ story" that Margaret Thatcher told George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly.
Air travelers "can’t get on a plane in the United States without someone doing a background check" on them.
Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A."
"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
A new law "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment."
Says that under President Barack Obama’s health care law, "your insurance" premiums could go up by 200 percent and cost "as much as a new Explorer."
Says "94 percent of (Marco Rubio's) constituents support a universal background check."
"Very few men outlive their own fertility."
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