Brenda Lawrence: “I have had to, as chair of this subcommittee, really lobby, fight hard for increased funding.”

To own a gun in America is a constitutional right, but just like any other situation that arises in America, when we get to the point of it being a pandemic, an epidemic, where the death of children in America, the No. 1 cause is a gun, my…

My colleague on the other side used a term that I hear frequently when we start talking about gun violence in America, and he said, 'my God-given right.'

We must ensure that people have a fair right to elect their choice of elected officials that represent their values

I find it ironic that my colleagues on the other side keep talking about giving the states the right to choose about abortion, but you want to take their right to choose away from a woman.