[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 37 (Thursday, February 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S1557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   Bipartisan Background Checks Bill

  Madam President, on guns, I was so glad to see the House passage of a 
background checks bill. I urge Leader McConnell to take it up in the 
Senate.
  Background checks are supported overwhelmingly by close to 90 percent 
of the American people--a majority of Republicans, a majority of gun 
owners. It doesn't take anyone's guns away. It simply says that if you 
are a felon, spousal abuser, or adjudicated mentally ill, you shouldn't 
have a gun, and it takes the means to make sure that happens.
  Now there are so many loopholes in the background check law--the 
Brady law, which I was proud to lead the charge on back in the House in 
1994. Now, some 25 years later, they have found ways around it through 
the internet and through gun shows. Just as it was the right thing to 
do to close the loopholes that existed in 1994 with the Brady law, it 
is the right thing to do to close those loopholes that have come about 
since the law passed. It simply updates the Brady law, which has saved 
tens of thousands of lives.