Sen. Gillibrand Wants To Make Illegally Transporting Guns Even More Illegal
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 31 January 2022
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, January 31st. |
| 0:14.6 | One of the people who attended New York City Police Officer Jason Rivera's funeral on Friday was New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, |
| 0:22.8 | and she had something more to say that day than, I'm sorry for your loss. The illegal firearm |
| 0:29.3 | used to kill Rivera and Officer Wilbert Mora was trafficked from out of state. So Gillibrand used |
| 0:35.4 | the tragic occasion later that day to push for a bill that |
| 0:39.3 | maybe just maybe will get enough support to pass now, making illegal gun trafficking a federal |
| 0:45.9 | crime. Hard to believe it isn't one already. We will ask why not. Other things on the Senate's |
| 0:51.1 | agenda, I know this sounds like a 2021 rerun, but negotiate with Joe |
| 0:55.8 | Manchin for a slimmer version of the build-back better bill. It could still matter to Democrats, |
| 1:01.2 | don't forget, to their chances of keeping the majority in Congress in particular, if they have |
| 1:06.4 | something real to show on paid family leave or universal pre-K or some of the other central provisions. |
| 1:13.7 | Senator Gillibrand was one of those people talking to Mansion late last year. We'll see where |
| 1:18.6 | this picks up. There's also Ukraine. Jillibrand is on the Armed Forces Committee with President |
| 1:24.7 | Biden talking about deploying troops to NATO countries nearby. We'll ask about that. |
| 1:30.2 | And of course, it's the Senate that will have to confirm President Biden's pick to replace |
| 1:35.5 | Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Biden has promised to nominate the court's first ever |
| 1:39.9 | black woman from a list of many who are highly qualified. And this may come as a shock, |
| 1:45.9 | but at least one Republican is now promising to vote for at least one of those on Biden's |
| 1:52.3 | shortlist. Federal Judge Michelle Childs of South Carolina, some of you know, she is the |
| 1:57.9 | favorite of Congressman Jim Clyburn from South Carolina, who's very |
| 2:01.5 | close to Biden, and with an apparent vote to confirm waiting to be had from South Carolina's |
| 2:09.0 | Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. I can't think of a better person for President Biden to consider for the Supreme Court than Michelle |
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