Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. My friend, the gentleman from Georgia, just rose and said that this won't work. We have risen on this floor time after time after time after time and had a moment of silence followed by no action. As I said time after time, we have had a moment of silence. I will tell my friend from Georgia that it hasn't worked. It has been appropriate, but it has not worked. Can we guarantee that this will work to make every person safe? It cannot. It will not. But I rise in strong support of doing something, and in this case doing something that 90 percent of America supports. Mr. Chairman, this House is finally going to do its job and take action--not just a moment of silence, but action--to address the epidemic of gun violence in our country. After the tragedies at Sandy Hook, Orlando, Las Vegas, Charleston, the Tree of Life synagogue, and Great Mills High School in my district, the House, under the previous leadership, did nothing. It didn't work. After the shooting just down the street at the Washington Navy Yard, the Republican-controlled House did nothing. Three of the victims of that attack were constituents of mine living in southern Maryland. Dr. Wendy Edmonds and Wanda Wallace are in the gallery, Mr. Chairman. They are the sisters of Sylvia Fraser, a Navy Yard shooting victim. Montana Geimer, daughter of Wendi Winters, a writer for the Capital Gazette of which my colleague, Mr.…”