Tony Cárdenas

This straightforward proposal will require that every moment of silence carried out on the floor of the House related to a tragedy involving gun violence is followed by a committee hearing on the subject of the tragedy within 10…

Every moment of silence observed by the House floor... would be followed by a hearing.

The moment of silence actually shows that we care, right? It is one thing for us to show that we care, but it is another thing for us to show we are willing to roll up our sleeves and actually deliberate.

behind every single one of those incidents are families and communities that are left in anguish and wondering why Congress is doing nothing about it.

When we have a moment of silence on the floor 99 percent of the time there have been tremendous national coverage on the matter.

So, again, we are talking about the most egregious, most heightened instances in the United States where the House of Congress pauses and has a moment of silence.

This resolution now has 141 cosponsors.

I picked 10 legislative days as a compromise in my mind to while it is still fresh in our minds.

It is the responsibility of every Member of Congress to discuss the gun violence epidemic, the Zika epidemic, to fix them with legislation...

I appreciate your bringing forward this very important issue. I understand your frustration that you share with many Members of the Congress.

What that breaks down to, ladies and gentlemen, over an annual basis is 32,500 people die as a result of gun violence every year in the United States of America.

Let us do our jobs again.

Thank you, colleague Lucille Roybal-Allard, for being here and for introducing that great bipartisan legislation.

And my last point that I want to make is that it is inappropriate for us as legislators to remind America about the things that we don't like about the Affordable Care Act without reminding them that if that family got cancer...

But, see, the thing is, what I think it is important for me to do in the last minute and a half of my time here is to point out that, before the ACA came into law, what was the deductible cap in America for healthcare coverage?

I hope, and it appears to me that maybe we are starting to speak more about how we can legislate and improve on the environment that we have post-ACA instead of just talking about how we should go back to a world before ACA.

If product distribution remains the same, how much will portable prescriptions actually be used?

I have a good friend, Cesar Milan, who knows a lot about dogs.

With all due respect, I think us, as Americans, we think that we have done everything first or better than everybody in the world.

Our family has three family members that are directly affected by today's committee topic.

I think it is unfortunate that it took a lawsuit to get NHTSA to make that happen.

Congress has the power of the purse. So, that is up to us to give you your budgets, et cetera.

It sounds like you are not only a good listener, you are a good action department. So, I just wanted to thank you so much for doing that.

It is something that we as Americans should be proud of but with all due respect, government does have its place.

What happened in Flint is a disaster that was manmade and at the tip of the spear is the Michigan Government.