Joe Crowley: “I sense a bit of frustration in the voice of my good friend from Texas (Mr. Sessions) in appealing to Democrats to focus…”

“I sense a bit of frustration in the voice of my good friend from Texas (Mr. Sessions) in appealing to Democrats to focus on the issue before us. We are focusing on the issue before us, the issue of gun violence in America today. If we learn nothing from 2 weeks ago, we should have learned this: it is no longer business as usual, and we are going to use whatever tactics we need to to get on this floor votes on no fly, no buy and on universal background checks. We are not going to settle for what is being cooked up right now as we speak in the Rules Committee, which has taken the Cornyn language in the Senate that will provide for a 3-day background check, which law enforcement has said over and over and over again will not work. So I can understand the frustration that I'm hearing, but I have to say get used to it because you are going to be frustrated for some time longer until we get on the floor a vote on those two measures that we have asked for. Now, Mr. Speaker, while most Americans were celebrating the anniversary of our Nation's independence this last weekend, hundreds more were mourning the loss of loved ones. Because in the past 72 hours--in just these 72 hours--and since we have gotten these statistics, this number has probably grown. What we know is that 94 people died and 248 were injured due to gun violence in America. That is one person killed or injured about every 12 minutes.…”