Clinton Goes After Benghazi Panel in National Ad

The proposal came days before former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, was scheduled to appear before the committee.

And though Rosenberg said he will “probably” go to New Hampshire to canvass for Clinton ahead of the nation’s first primary, he said he likes that the self-described socialist senator from Vermont is drawing attention to issues like income inequality. “That’s not enough. How many people have to die before we actually act?”

With that she showed both the urgency and the futility of today’s national gun debate.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says that jail was the “right thing” for a Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Her campaign rolled out a set of proposals Monday, including using executive action as president to expand background check requirements.

Clinton also pointed out the necessity of closing loopholes that exist under current gun laws so that background checks are carried out for everyone, including individuals buying firearms at gun shows and through online sales.

Clinton spoke out forcefully in favor of new gun control measures after a shooting last week on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, which killed nine people and wounded another nine.

A day later, New York magazine reported that the pro-Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, which coordinates directly with the Clinton campaign and conducts opposition research on her Democratic and Republican opponents, has begun compiling research on Biden. Neither he nor his relatives, who authorities say bought the killer’s guns, have criminal or mental health records that would have blocked the purchases. In 2005, Congress once again took up the question of whether or not to block class-action lawsuits against gun manufacturers.

There have been at least 72 in the last three decades – and most of the killers got their guns legally.

The Sanders campaign is bracing for more incoming fire on guns, particularly for his 2009 vote to bring guns on Amtrak just like you can on planes in checked luggage.

By highlighting her gun control plans here, Clinton is making plain she sees the issue as timely and broadly politically palatable for Democrats and independent voters.

Clinton again said that she had no knowledge of what Brock and the PAC were doing and said that she has continually put out public statements suggesting that she would give Biden the space and time to decide whether he wants to join the race.

Demand for firearms surged in the past when consumers feared gun control legislation was coming.

Clinton “said we need to be taking whatever steps we can, to do whatever we can to secure our people”, Mills said, according to a partial transcript released by Democrats. “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”.