Asked about whether or not it's time for Congress to reconsider the research ban on gun violence it instituted on the Centers for Disease Control, House Speaker John Boehner deflected, admitted that Republicans will do nothing to stop gun violence, and said if Democrats want to complain about it, they should have done something when they were in the majority.
WASHINGTON -- If Democrats really cared about gun violence, they would have done something about it when they were running Washington, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged Wednesday. […]
Boehner said the topic [of CDC research] has not come up in his talks.
"I don't think there’s been any discussions at this point. It's not been part of the discussions," he told reporters on Capitol Hill before expressing sympathy for the nine people killed and nine more wounded in last week's massacre in Roseburg, Oregon.
"We've seen far too many of these," Boehner said, before putting the onus on Democrats.
"In '09 and '10, we had Democrat majorities in the House and Senate. We had a Democrat president. And this clearly was not a priority for them. The president can rail all he wants," Boehner said, referring to President Barack Obama's angry denunciation last week of Congress' failure to address the issue.
"We've seen far too many of these," but it's not my problem, says Boehner, the highest ranking elected Republican in the land. He added, when specifically asked about background checks, "I'm not the expert on each of the individual policies, but I would like to see us work together on finding effective ways to reduce these horrific incidents." As a reminder, Senate Democrats did try, with the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey bill, to do something, by extending background checks to gun shows and Internet sales. Republicans killed it with a filibuster.
Then there are the bills Democrats introduced in the House that were shuffled off to committee, never to be heard from again. So spare us your sympathy for the dead, Boehner. You can't shove the blame away on someone else.if i might quote Judge Judy Beohner is peeing on your leg and telling you it's raining. he did not answer the question instead deflected and assigned blame elsewhere they talk of Dems majority first couple of years so why they didn't do this or the other again omitting facts of republican pledge to obstruct. he had the same problem they cry about having now Dem filibuster.
http://cjonline.com/blog-post/lucinda/2012-06-01/no-obama-did-not-control-congress-his-first-two-years
