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On the recordDecember 17, 2012
I yield the gentlelady 30 additional seconds. Ms. DeGETTE. I stood right here with my Representatives from Colorado, like the Connecticut delegation, and mourned our friends in Aurora. And now again we stand here. We can start by passing a bill this week to ban high-capacity ammo clips, the same kind this killer used and the same kind the killer in Aurora used. My colleague and friend, Carolyn McCarthy, and I have a bill to do just that, and we're going to urge the Republican leadership to do that this week. But after that, we have to have that conversation as parents, as neighbors, as friends, and the custodians of those 20 courageous little souls and the adults who tried to protect them.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut
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Dec 17, 2012

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