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can't legislate around evil is just shocking, because what else are they doing? they vote on bills, that's what they do. we have national speed limits, we have seat belts all of these things have been mandated through law that save lives, except one, guns. and we're seeing the consequences of that. so obviously, yes. i know they can act. congress has acted. we have the 1934 national firearms act, the 1968 gun control act, the brady law and they have saved millions and millions of lives these laws. and we need additional laws. we need to ban assault weapons. we need to expand the brady law. and we need to implement the laws that we have well. and stop strangling the atf, the national -- atf regulates gun dealers across the country and
well, first i feel like you should be given the opportunity to take a little bit of the victory lap. as the sun majority leader now. with a 51 to 49. what do you chalk this up to? >> you hit the nail on the head. two things chris. first, we passed a whole lot of legislation that mattered to people. at the bottom line, people cared for years. people, the congress couldn't take on the prescription drug industry. for 30 years, the author of the brady law and assault weapons. we've passed significant laws there. we are bringing our ships industry back to america. good paying jobs here, not in china or overseas. we passed the most significant climate change legislation every, we pass the most major infrastructure bill ever, someone like raphael warnock, who as you say, extremely talented, at a lot to campaign on, and people said, gee, his democratic party is talking about things like karabakh! but at the same time, people understood that the republican party was not the republican party of ten or 15 years ago. it had become a maga party. and frankly, one of our successes and messaging was