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On the recordJune 7, 2022
All I am asking my colleagues to do is open your hearts and listen, and I hope we still have enough humanity in this body to do this.
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California

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Speier urges colleagues to empathize with victims and take action on gun violence.

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