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Grassley and i were here at your hearing a number of years ago. let me go back in before that. 46 years ago i was not in the senate. i was states attorney in vermont, and i watched with a great of interest the elliot richardson hearings. nominated to be attorney general in the midst of water gate. he made several commitments to the committee including appointing a special prosecutor, and he promised to protect his independence, and i -- it was one who had total independence as elected prosecutor in verm t vermont, i thought how important it was to have the same inagain at the national level. m...

We have seen 87,000 more people die from firearms just since sandy hook, not to mention the 41 mass shootings and the 142 since sandy hook. so, when cook talks about the fact that virginia has a low firearm fatality rate, that's not true. i am from urban industrial massachusetts. i am a gun owner. we have the lowest firearm fatality rate in the nation, except for hawaii, and we have the most comprehensive gun laws. vermont has a firearm fatality rate over three times greater than urban industrial vermont. urban industrial massachusetts. and there is no background check for private gun sales in...