Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the bill (H.R. 962) the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, and ask for its immediate consideration in the…

This hearing is a recognition and an insistence on that humanity, a recognition that the Flores decision also addressed.

As a nation, we have a moral obligation to protect women and children from falling prey to this practice.

I am the daughter of a refugee who came here 70 years ago, and these issues are critically important to me as well.

What I am trying to understand is in a world where we have these caps, which are not being met.

I want to talk about the Charleston Loophole bill that the House just passed, H.R. 1112, which of course is designed to close that loophole by preventing individuals from purchasing firearms from a gun dealer without a background check.

So the first question for you, Mr. Brandon, is how would passage of H.R. 1112 impact the ATF's efforts to prevent gun violence?

The problem is, as it stands today, there is 3-day waiting period and, after the 3-day waiting period, people who are not supposed to get a gun can pick one up from a gun store if the FBI has not finished the background check.

So wouldn't H.R. 1112 keep your agency from having to go through that exercise, going out to pick up guns from dangerous criminals that can't legally have them?

ATF is underfunded.

I wouldn't be doing my job speaking to you distinguished folks if I did not rightfully say that ATF needs to be funded.

I want to make sure that as we pass common sense gun-safety laws, we properly enforce--we properly fund the agencies tasked with enforcing those laws.

I say 'legally' because that sale never should have happened, based on the shooter's 1995 felony conviction in another state.

Well, this fiscal year 2020 budget proposal for NSF puts the agency back to where it was in fiscal year 2012. That doesn't sound like much of an investment in the future.

Well, I think it is obvious that NSF recognizes that its funding supports research that is a primary driver of economic growth in this country.

I respectfully urge you to consider a total funding level of $2.15 billion for the Space Launch System for fiscal year 2020.

You can't help being impressed with the progress and development of the commercial space sector.

One final point, as I have often said, space is critical to our national security.