1. President Clinton said the semi-auto ban cost him control of the Congress:

"The fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress ... [and is] the reason the Republicans control the House."

-- The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, January 15, 1995

2. President Clinton said the semi-auto ban cost him control of the Congress:

"I don't think it's a secret to anybody in this room that several members of the last Congress who voted for [the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban] aren't here tonight because they voted for it. . . . [A] lot of people laid down their seats in Congress."

-- State of the Union Address, January 24, 1995

3. President Clinton said the semi-auto ban cost him control of the Congress:

"There are some people [Democrats] who would be on this platform today who lost their seats in 1994 because they voted for the Brady Bill and they voted for the assault weapons ban."

-- at a White House press conference, April 27, 1999

4. President Clinton said the semi-auto ban cost him control of the Congress:

"This [Republican] Congress came to power after the 1994 elections because in critical races the people who voted for more modest things, like the Brady bill ... got beat. They got beat, Charlie."

-- on ABC's Good Morning America, June 4, 1999

5. Sen. Joe Lieberman admitted gun control cost Al Gore the White House:

Lieberman lamented to USA Today in 2001 that Democrats "lost a number of [pro-gun] voters who on almost every other issue realized they'd be better off with Al Gore."