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Universal background checks, closing the Charleston loophole, the assault weapons ban, red-flag laws, ban the sale of ghost guns, make sure that people who buy ammunition go through a background check. These things will save lives.
We must repeal PLCAA's sweeping immunity from civil liability for the gun industry which must be held to account for negligent conduct, defective products, and otherwise irresponsible behavior.
I thank the Hon. Demings for introducing H.R. 2466 which would do so.
Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the rule and the establishment of a national commission to study the events of January 6, 2021. The January 6 insurrection was a violent and bloody attack on our democracy. Domestic terrorists stormed…
Ghost guns are a clear and present threat to public safety, and it is imperative that we take action now.
We lose 30,000 Americans every single year to senseless gun violence, including 23,000 Americans that die by suicide every year with a gun.
That doesn't mean we don't have a responsibility to pass laws that will substantially reduce gun violence in this country.
The gun violence epidemic in this country that we face is like nowhere else in the world.
I am committed to ending the scourge of gun violence in this country.
I support this effort and I hope that Congress can quickly move to address on a federal level the dangers that ghost guns present.
We cannot allow this to continue in our country. That is why safe storage of guns is critical to our public safety and why I introduced the Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act.
We had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, all-time record low unemployment for African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, many other subsets of our population.
We should not pay for a big infrastructure package by borrowing or printing hundreds of billions of more dollars.
It's just so important that we keep our eye on the ball here, we continue to strengthen the S&T and the R&D ecosystem.
Without the right attention and support and progress, our enemies and adversaries will make that progress and we can't allow that to happen.
Last year Minerva, the social science program that is vital to cyber and terrorism research, was zeroed out.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3233. On September 11, 2001, I was a freshman in Congress. We suffered attacks that day because of a failure of imagination. Since then, I have dedicated myself to getting ahead of the curve…