Even though last night at the State of the Union, you did not hear one single word from the President about gun violence.

If we work together on background checks and mental health illness, which I believe is correctly identified as another issue.

After six years, from Sandy Hook to Pulse to Charleston and all the cities we have come to learn, we saw moments of silence followed by moments of inaction.

Thank you to Mike Thompson, my colleague, who has continued to believe that we can do better and that we can start with background checks.

I am very passionate about, which is, having a ban on assault weapons.

this bill will return power to the people and restore our democracy. It will help us clean up the culture of corruption in Washington and focus on making sure our government works for the people of this country.

it is so important that we pass H.R. 1, which will repair our democracy by restoring real power to the people of this country and away from the special interests and powerful corporations.

Republican opposition to these reforms... is obvious because they benefit from this broken system, as do their donors and their super PACs.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Congresswoman Bass about the sort of very disappointing positions of two of our witnesses...

I cannot imagine how anyone could think that voters waiting on line in the morning for four hours in Gwinnett County, Georgia, because the machines lacked the power cords, how anyone could think that was a good thing.

This is not a partisan concern. This is about whether or not we are a healthy democracy, and it is an embarrassment and a disgrace that we compel people to spend four hours standing on a line to exercise their right as citizens to…