03/16/2011
https://congress.gov...
"Only by conducting scientific research on gun injury prevention can we better understand the causes of this crisis."
"Thank you very much. It is now a pleasure for me to introduce the chair of the full Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Nita Lowey."
"Gun violence is a public health emergency. Anything that kills 40,000 Americans every year is a crisis."
"The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the nation's foremost public health agency. And yet, it has been absent from this research agenda for more than 20 years."