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On the recordJuly 12, 2016
It has been 4 days since the mass shooting in Dallas. It has been a month since the mass shooting in Orlando. It has been 7 months since the mass shooting in San Bernardino, and at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. It has been a year since the mass shooting in Charleston. It has been 2 years since the mass shooting in Umpqua Community College in Oregon. It has been 3\1/2\ years since the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. It has been 4 years since the mass shooting at the theater in Aurora, Colorado. It has been 5\1/2\ years since the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, where our colleague, Gabby Giffords, was shot. Mr. Speaker, please talk to Speaker Ryan. Not once, after any of those shootings, in all of these 5\1/2\ years, have we had one hearing or one vote on gun violence, not one. Now, we have had 60 votes on repealing the Affordable Care Act, none of which went anywhere. The Republican majority has spent millions of dollars going after Benghazi or emails to no avail; but not one vote, not one hearing, nothing on gun violence. {time} 1100 Now, Mr. Speaker, you know I would much rather be here talking about the Broncos winning the 50th Super Bowl. I would much rather be talking about the unbelievable accuracy of NASA getting the Juno satellite to Jupiter after 5 years of space travel within 1 second of the planned time.…
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Ed Perlmutter
Democratic · Colorado
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Jul 12, 2016

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