Lois Capps: “I also encourage the Chairman to look at complementary legislation-the Medical Checklist Act-that Mr. Holt and I have…”

Today I also rise on behalf of the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence, including in my very own district in Isla Vista, California, on May 23, 2014. That horrific act killed 6 and injured 14--young people full of life and…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to please bring up H.R. 1217. It is a bipartisan bill, the expanded background checks legislation, and I am doing this today in honor of this beautiful young mother of…

This would undermine the fundamental principles of the program and I cannot express enough how damaging that would be to patients and my constituents.

So bold action needs to be taken.