The Democratic front-runners proposal on gun control, which she rolled out the week after a mass shooting at an Oregon community college, couldgive her an issue that resonates with progressive voters enthusiastically backing the Vermont senator, a self-described socialist.
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Emily Schillinger, spokeswoman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the ad “a classic Clinton attempt to distract from her record of putting classified information at risk and jeopardizing our national security, all of which the FBI is investigating”.
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee, [and] what are her numbers today? If Congress won’t act Clinton “will take administrative action to require that any person attempting to sell a significant number of guns be deemed “in the business” of selling firearms”, the aide said, meaning they will fall under background check laws. “Her numbers are dropping”. She was secretary of state at the time.
“This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries, knows no limits of any kind”, Clinton said.
One member of the Benghazi committee, Georgia Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, defended McCarthy’s statement, though not the way he said it, on “Closer Look”.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday dismissed the idea of reinstating a Depression-era banking law that has found champions in two of her Democratic opponents, setting up what will likely be a flashpoint in next week’s Democratic primary debate. “I would have never done that, and if I were president and there were Republicans or Democrats who were thinking about that, I would have done everything to shut it down”.
What can be gathered from the overall national presidential poll is that Hillary Clinton seems to still be maintaining a strong lead, although slipping a bit from her ratings in last month’s results.
During Hillary Clinton’s sit-down interview with Judy Woodruff of PBS NewsHour denounced the attacks that David Brock and his Super PAC Correct the Record were doing against competitor Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
Her campaign rolled out a robust set of proposals Monday, including using executive action as president to expand background check requirements.
Release of the transcript is “the only way to adequately correct the public record”, the Democrats wrote the chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.
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Between 20 percent and 40 percent of all arms sales transactions occur without such screenings, a major loophole in federal law, Clinton said.
