Brenda Lawrence: “So, the question is, if we don't stand up as Members of Congress who have oversight, who's going to fight for the…”

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 have never passed comprehensive gun legislation in this country, and we need to do it now.

If I hear another hypocrite stand up and say 'my thoughts and prayers' while parents are grieving, and standing, and bearing children.

I spent 30 years as a member of the United States Postal Service family.