I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, in the 116th Congress.

Nothing in the Constitution requires America's leaders to stand by and do nothing while more people die from gun violence each year than die from military combat overseas.

I urge you to expand Brady background checks by voting for H.R. 8.

It is time that Congress repealed this outrageous law.

Charges of radicalism, accusations of motives of partisanship, but never a peep or outrage about partisan gerrymandering which has benefited your party for decades.

Representative John Lewis reminds us that if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to take it from you.

At the core of democracy and the root word of 'demos' is to engage more voices, to engage more voices and to empower them in this democracy.

Characterizations of H.R. 1 as a power grab. You got us again. Guilty.

Madam Speaker, I missed the vote due to a press conference for my first bill in Rayburn. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 59 on the motion to table. Stated against:

It is a testament to you, Mr. Chairman, that the first matter on our docket, the priority of this committee was to lift up lived experiences...

We mourn the loss of Antavia. And there are millions more like her whose health is threatened and whose lives hang in the balance because of a tiered for-profit healthcare system because of greed.