Mike Collins: “This motion to recommit will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately…”

“This motion to recommit will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. As was just read, the motion to recommit will notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, when an illegal alien who is prohibited from possessing a firearm attempts to purchase a firearm by going through the process of application. Madam Speaker, I have been here all afternoon, and we have heard time and time again how we have had the problem of mass violence. We have talked about how to solve it, and, unfortunately, this underlying bill, as I have brought out many times already, will not do this. We have heard that we have to do something basically even if it won't work. Madam Speaker, I will remind this House one more time that what makes you feel good does not always heal you. When we understand that, then we can begin to move forward. What we have found this day is that this bill has many problems because we chose to rush it to the floor because we had a deadline, and we cut off debate in committee. We found amendments offered to fix parts of this bill that do not fix them but actually make them worse. We have found out that the authors of the bill did not even know how much was going to be fined in the bill until we actually pointed it out. Now we come to the biggest part: I have been here all day listening to: We have to keep criminals from having firearms.…”