Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am on the floor today to ask for unanimous consent from my colleagues to proceed to H.R. 8, the House- passed, bipartisan, comprehensive background checks bill. I want to tell you why I am making this request. I understand the low likelihood of success, but I hope many of my colleagues took a minute to watch cell phone video from the school shooting in Michigan yesterday--on Tuesday, excuse me. It is absolutely terrifying to watch in real time children fleeing their classroom in fear that their lives were about to be ended. One hundred 9-1-1 calls came into the police during the shooting. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the gunman entering the bathroom with a backpack, then exiting a minute later without the backpack but with the handgun. He then started firing at students. When they started to run, he ``methodically and deliberately'' walked down the hallway and aimed his gun into classrooms at students who were unable to escape. We think about the damage done and the number of lives lost--four so far--and those who were injured, but, really, the damage is so much broader because all of those kids who fled that violence, all of those kids who now don't think of school as a safe place--they are going through trauma and will go through trauma that may take a lifetime to address.…”