Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from Florida. I recall so vividly that day on February 14, 2018. It started like it does most days with people across the country. They take their children to school, drop them off, and, in this case, maybe some of them drove themselves. And within hours, the lives of 17 families had been changed forever. It was a horrible tragedy: 17 students and faculty members who lost their lives; another 17 that were wounded in the attack. And it shocked the country. It was shocking because they went to do what so many people do on a regular basis in a place where you never think that something like that could happen. And as my colleague pointed out, there is no resolution in the Senate or words that we can say that will restore the lives that were lost, erase the pain still felt by those victims, the families, the friends, those who loved them. But even as we continue to grieve, we must also work to prevent something like this from happening anywhere at any time. I was proud that in the early days after this tragedy, within just a few weeks, together, working across the aisle, we passed the STOP School Violence Act, which provided Federal grant money for school safety. And that has been ongoing now for 3 years. We passed the Fix NICS Act, which helped patch some of the holes that existed in our background check system.…”