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It is estimated that legal guns save 162,000 lives annually and prevent 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 crimes every day. By their own admission, criminals fear armed citizens more than they fear the police. Up to 90 percent of…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Colorado. S. 2938

next month marks an anniversary that nobody wants to celebrate: 10 years since 70 people were shot and 12 killed while sitting in a movie theater in Aurora, CO. At the time, it was the largest mass shooting in American history. Since then…

this morning, the Supreme Court weakened gun safety laws in America for the first time in over a decade. It gutted a century's-old law to make sure that people carrying concealed weapons actually needed them. The Court is taking us…

I have five requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed. Pursuant to…

The real question, though, is how much do we lose by delaying the appropriate investments to complete that preparedness work?

I think it is imperative that we make investments today that will help us better understand and prepare for viruses tomorrow.

We can, and I think really have to work closely with our allied partners to advance scientific and research efforts.

The reality is, I think it creates real danger for the probability that new COVID variants or other pathogens like monkeypox can emerge and spread quickly undetected in our interconnected world.

I thank Mr. Rosendale for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I love what Mr. Biggs was saying, how these are our God- given rights. That right there is fundamental, and that is why we have a government, to secure our God-given rights. None of our…

I miss and the American people miss the Trump economy.

Washington politicians are addicted to spending. We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.

It has been said before but one day you will run out of other people's money to spend.

the House Budget Committee will be playing along with Speaker Pelosi's con game of titling a bill something magnificent and then loading it with a bunch of liberal wish list items.

Heck, if you are a senior living on fixed income, Joe Biden's economy it is a death sentence.

American families are paying the price for bad policy.

You cannot force millions of Americans out of the work force and then allow them to go back to work and call that job creation.