Political Quotes

“I ask that you talk to the Speaker of the whole House, Paul Ryan, and let him know that we are not going away and this subject on gun violence is not going away. We have had too many people killed, too many people maimed, and too many people traumatized to not take up a vote on two commonsense pieces of legislation. The first one is no fly, no buy. No fly, no buy. If you are on the terrorist watch list, you can't get a gun. The second is universal background checks to make sure that people with dangerous mental instability, domestic violence, and felons can't get a gun. These are two very simple and straightforward bipartisan pieces of legislation. They have got to come up for a vote. We are not going to go away. We have had too many killings. Like Diana DeGette, I represent the Denver area. We are no stranger to mass shootings. I am going to read the names of the kids and the teacher killed at Columbine and the names of the people killed in the Aurora movie theater so that their deaths are not in vain and that we actually take up some legislation instead of the Republican majority continually ducking the conversation: Rachel Scott, 17. Daniel Rohrbough, 15. Dave Sanders, the teacher, 47. Kyle Velasquez, 17. Steve Curnow, 14. Corey DePooter, 17. Cassie Bernall, 17. Daniel Mauser, 15. I was just on a telephone townhall with Daniel Mauser's father last week talking to my constituency about gun violence.…”