The law-abiding citizens would not be blocked from getting a gun through a background check. Is that correct?
We need to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and gun traffickers, keeping weapons of war off the street.
A hundred Americans dying every day. So that means as we sit here today, there are Americans being killed by guns.
I do think in this Committee that we should--the parliamentary inquiry is the caution of making sure that we do not have...
I would agree that it's a political problem.
I think the president's going to go out there and deliver a speech that you know the country is actually doing pretty we...
Well, at least he has some Democrats because most of them boycotted in the past. So I give them credit for at least show...
You were governor. When you ran on something and you made a central point.
One of the issues that the president brought that got bipartisan applause... I'm trying to actually come up with some id...
I think there is a compromise that will include some element of DACA, some element of these TPA folks.
Let me again emphasize that the Honorable Barbara Jordan who represented this district would not have been elected had i...
The elimination of straight-ticket voting... will disenfranchise maybe hundreds of thousands and maybe a million voters ...
African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely than Anglos to be living in poverty because they continue to bear the so...
Do you believe that Texas is one of the major epicenters of voter suppression?
I remember in the voter ID law that we were experiencing the panic in rural areas of DPS offices closing up or not being...
Our local officials closed the polls at 4:00 p.m.
The Secretary of State should probably resign after issuing an advisory on January 25th flagging 95,000 of the state's r...
I am also proud that my first bill, the Inaugural Fund Integrity Act, has been included in this landmark legislation.