WASHINGTON, DC – Wednesday, January 6, 2016 – U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS), today sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch in response to President Obama’s announcement that he plans to use executive action to restrict Americans’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms. 

In the letter, Senator Shelby requests that Attorney General Lynch testify on the President’s proposals before the CJS Subcommittee, which oversees funding for the Department of Justice, on January 28, 2016.  He also requests that she testify on the Department’s FY2017 budget request on February 25, 2016.

After sending the letter, Senator Shelby released the following statement:

“The American people’s Second Amendment rights as guaranteed by the Constitution should be protected – not unilaterally changed by executive fiat.   I strongly oppose President Obama’s attempts to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms, and I will use all avenues to stop his reckless, unlawful action.  The New Year brings another opportunity to fully examine the use of funds allocated to the Department of Justice, and I will not sit by idly while Attorney General Lynch allows President Obama’s executive overreach to be put into practice.  We live in an increasingly dangerous world, and the American people deserve for their leaders to focus on defeating radical Islamic terrorism instead of targeting law-abiding Americans.”

Chairman Shelby’s letter to Attorney General Lynch can be found here.

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