
I hope you will urge this legislature and the President and the Senate to make sure that we close these holes, and we begin to save lives from gun violence.
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I hope you will urge this legislature and the President and the Senate to make sure that we close these holes, and we begin to save lives from gun violence.

I introduced a bill this Congress. I want you to know of it. I know you are not here to advocate for any legislation. The Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act, which would prohibit the possession of any firearm that is undetectable by…

I strongly believe that Congress plays a critical role in addressing this epidemic of violence.

I want to echo his urging of you to look at the two bills we passed nearly a year ago, H.R. 8, universal background checks, and H.R. 1112, closing of the Charleston loophole.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the Ghost Town Trail that runs between Ebensburg and Blairsville, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently named the Ghost Town Trail the Pennsylvania…

I have introduced legislation on that, and there is extensive racial profiling, specifically in groups that may be considered Black identity groups that are really nonviolent.

I believe that Russia has been engaged in interfering with a number of our elections dealing with the '21 elections--I am sorry, the 2016 election.

Mr. President, as I rise today to discuss this impeachment trial, I am reminded of an inscription above the front door of the Finance Building in Harrisburg, PA, from the 1930s. Here is the inscription: ``All public service is a trust…

Bolton is not testifying that he was asked to do a quid pro quo. He was not asked to do that.

Just remember, the Ukraine policy under this president is actually the right policy as opposed to the old president was not.

I would align with what Lamar Alexander said. Look, the president saying those things I think was improper.

There will be more investigations. There will be more congressional resolutions passed.

The larger point is when I say they gave them a bum case, it was not because they didn't interview a bunch of witnesses and didn't have documents, it's because that the charges that were laid out in the impeachment are not -- are not -- as…

The idea that he goes to the Ukrainians and that there was no other possible motivation for him to ask for an investigation of the 2016 election, which is not a future election, is because of his own partisan advantage.

The president will get a slap on the wrist. I think Republicans in the Senate felt like they were dealt a raw deal and that the president did some things that he shouldn't have done, probably not impeachable, he shouldn't have done.

The president was impeached for doing this. And a big part of the country was -- is not happy that the president did that and a lot of them wanted witnesses.

If the White House is going to object, they have a constitutional basis to do so. It needs to be litigated as it has been throughout the course of the history of this country, not by the Senate impeachment or not by the chief justice. It's…