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13009358, Not saying that it's right...
Posted by Doomdata21, Thu Apr-21-16 06:24 PM
He had his remarks for posterity on the floor as seen in the video I provided, but if you don't sign the bill and vote against it then you don't get the violence against women provision and you don't get the provision against automatic weapons.

Also:
>During consideration of the bill, Sanders voted six times to
>weaken or eliminate the death penalty provisions and voted
>separately against creating new mandatory minimums. Then-First
>Lady Hillary Clinton spoke strongly in favor of increased
>incarceration, labeling at risk youth as “super-predators”
>who had to be “brought to heel.”

His judgement of the bill still stands as correct. It's unfortunate that sometimes our representatives are put into that position. Just don't tell me Hillary was the answer in that case.