Carolyn McCarthy: “We have 15 million people unemployed. We have nine million people underemployed.”

I think that, you know, while this committee can do some work to make schools safer from gun violence, you know, my personal belief is that we need to do something in tandem with trying to reduce gun violence outside the school.

I am going to make something happen.

The SAVE Act called for meaningful and practical steps to improve accountability, accuracy, and transparency to our nation's parents and educators in the reporting of school crimes and violence.

For a nation as wealthy and influential as ours, these figures are simply unacceptable.