Sen. Feinstein on gun legislation to CNN: Not to give me a vote on this would be a major betrayal of trust, as I would see it.
Today on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, the chairs of the senate and house intelligence committees Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) spoke with CNN about chemical weapons in Syria, the ten year benchmark of the Iraq war and more.
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Sen. Feinstein on gun legislation, “This is very important to me. And I’m not going to lay down and play dead…Not to give me a vote on this would be a major betrayal of trust, as I would see it.”
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KEILAR: Now, Senator Reid, Senator Feinstein, had said before that you deserved a vote. But it’s appearing now that it’s going to be an amendment that could ultimately just be a symbolic vote. What’s your response to this new…
FEINSTEIN: No, no, if it’s an amendment, that is not a symbolic vote. I did the bill in 1994 on the floor as an amendment. It enacted a law. It went on to the House. It was enacted. What Senator Reid told me is that I would have an opportunity for a vote. I take him at his word.
I told him also that it would be my intention to separate out the prohibition on the future manufacture, transfer, sales, possession of large ammunition feeding devices of more than 10 bullets.
I asked him if this could be part of a package. He said no. And I took away from that meeting the belief that we would have a vote on the full bill, and a vote on ammunition-feeding devices of more than 10 bullets.
This is very important to me. And I’m not going to lay down and play dead. I think the American people have said in every single public poll that they support this kind of legislation. It’s aimed to protect children, to protect schools and malls. It’s aimed to dry up the supply of these over time. And it came out on a 10-8 vote of the Judiciary Committee.
Not to give me a vote on this would be a major betrayal of trust, as I would see it.
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