We must analyze gun violence in America the same way we would analyze a disease, as it is, in fact, a public health issue, as well as one of public safety.

I thank the chair of the subcommittee, Karen Bass, for holding this critical hearing about community-driven strategies to reduce gun violence in our cities across the Nation.

I want to make a couple comments before I start the questions.

There is a terrible slander abetted by the President... that illegal aliens... are a danger to the United States.

And I think that I would just say that is something that ought to be revisited because to have miscarriages or stillbirths is just not the right thing.

This discussion is a critical component of this committee's comprehensive approach to addressing our national epidemic of gun violence.

The public's right of access is fundamental, and it is not adequately protected when our courts fall far behind modern standards of media access.

the propaganda about the connection between immigrants and crime is just that, propaganda, and that there is no evidence or considerable evidence to the contrary that immigrants, whether legal or otherwise, commit crimes at a lower rate…

The Trump Administration's immigration policies have been a failure at a policy level and, more important, as a matter of basic human decency.

I think we need to revisit how we are spending our money, and we are wasting huge amounts of the taxpayers' money locking people up who pose no threat.

This is why I support a national ban on assault weapons.

The question becomes, why such large-capacity magazines on these assault weapons and assault rifles, if we are talking about hunting?