Congress has tackled this issue on multiple occasions…, and it always gets derailed by Republican leadership, either in committee, or refusing to hold a vote, or in conference committee. They have been doing everything in their power to kill these bills.

This bill has one motivation -- payback by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership of the Congress to the powerful special interest of the National Rifle Association.

The Republican leadership in Congress and the Bush Administration created this monster. The least they can do is help tame it.

The Republican House leadership was maneuvering to prevent members of Congress from having to go on the record about much-needed reforms the public supports.

He told Sibley that if he became a Republican again, 'we'll put you back in Congress.' That was said to him even as he was a Democrat serving in office.

Once again, it appears to me that the White House has dictated that the Republican-controlled Congress not conduct oversight of an important national security matter, ... They have made it clear that anyone who suggests that oversight is needed should be labeled as unpatriotic.