This bill does not take guns out of the hands of Americans. It does not strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

People argue about the Second Amendment. Well, the Second Amendment says 'a well regulated militia,' to bear arms, safe and free, freedom of state. It has not been well regulated, and it is not being well regulated.

Now, the Second Amendment, like every constitutional right, is subject to reasonable restrictions and regulation.

It is time for Congress to pick a side. This time I hope it is law enforcement's.

We’ll build about three times as many supportive housing units across the country with Federal dollars.

I don't waste a moment to make a pitch for supportive housing because, to me, it's the building block of success.

It's just good business for Walgreens. They certainly are doing it because they believe it's the right thing.

I think it's incredibly important, and we have sort of been talking about it with respect to simplicity as it relates to employers.

What an important hearing.

I worry a little bit about our ability to micromanage this problem, and I think a lot of the ideas we are talking about are incredibly important.

I hope that that's part of our hearing as well today, how do we put the practice of medicine back into primary care?

It really comes down to a question of do you want to invest early, or do you want to pay later...

I think if some people on this committee want to call the tragedy in Benghazi the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4,000-plus Americans lost over 10 years of war in Iraq fought under false pretenses.

As former Secretary of State Clinton said in her testimony before Congress in January 2013, that we are abdicating the ideological arena and we need to get back into it.

I think there are a lot of NRA members who agree. I think Wayne Lapierre today is out of step with America, out of step with Newtown.

I have a feeling that the majority of these parents are going to be marching on Washington. I mean, be demanding change, whether it be more help for the mentally ill or developmentally disabled or stricter gun control.

By the time I had gotten to the next funeral, to little Dylan Hockley's funeral, the horror had already started to spread through the 200, 300 people who were there. Dylan's family talked about the fact that they knew that something good…

I can't speak for Ian and Nicole, nor for the other parents, but I'm pretty sure that they don't think that change is more guns.

Ultimately, the solution for this country is not for us to become one big armed camp. The solution is to make sure that these weapons don't exist in the first place.

This country is moving over the last seven days towards sensible gun legislation that takes assault weapons off the streets.

I think we're going to have one of the most powerful lobbying forces that this country has ever seen in the parents and relatives of those that were killed last Friday.

If the assault weapons ban had been in place, Anderson, I fundamentally believe, I know a lot of parents in Newtown believe that there would be kids getting their Christmas presents this Christmas.

I was in Grace McDonnell's funeral. And when I got out, I was shown a copy of the statement and I nearly became sick.

That's essentially what the NRA said today is, that the solution to this mass killing in Newtown is more guns in schools, in homes.

I thank the gentlewoman. At this time, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Chu).