If Senate Democrats had accepted due process, we would have gun control

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26. The idea that they have proof on file is demonstrably wrong. The bill was a fig leaf.

Ted Kennedy and the No-Fly List Myth

Fact checks article shows that 3 different public figures were at times on the no-fly list, "Ted Kennedy and Stephen Hayes the journalist and Cat Stevens."

Ted Kennedy found himself on the list at least 4 separate times. Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam was on the list because the FBI felt he committed suspicious acts. The FBI refuse to say whether Hays was on their watch list.

It is clear that there isn't a file that's easy to get to and hand over to a lawyer and a judge.

At minimum, there would need to be a dedicated, well-funded staff with a high-security clearance to work with Homeland Security, FBI, TSA, NSA, CIA and every other government organization that can put people on that list.

Of course, that would take funding, and according to the Constitution, Funding bills must begin in the House of Representatives.

And another thing. Who voted on the house version of the bill. If they did not initiate a bill that would provide funding for that process, then no funding would be possible.

They could, of course, vote on the Senate Bill, but it would contain no funding and that bill would have never gone through the House. A bill must go through both the House and the Senate before it is passed.

This bill was meant as a fig leave to pretend that Senators who were up for election had somehow done something. It was a meaningless exercise using a bill that would never have passed in the House so Senators could use it in their reelection campaigns.