fundamental rights are not up or should not be up to a vote.

we need to look very strategically at limiting the jurisdiction of an unaccountable institution called the Supreme Court of the United States.

The far right six-three majority on the Supreme Court is on a rampage against basic freedoms.

Time after time you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live.

I just reject the idea that any of my Republican colleagues have any good-faith basis whatsoever, to continue their obstruction and their opposition to something that is broadly supported by the American people.

Time after time, we have given you a chance to do something, after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Parkland. And time after time, you have chosen to put your right to kill over our right to live.

As the youngest member of this committee, I need to address my Republican colleagues on behalf of the generations of young people whom Republicans have condemned to grow up in fear that they will be gunned down at school.

But your selfishness and your indifference have not killed our hope. You have transformed it.

We`re talking about universal background checks, raising the age to purchase semiautomatic weapons, in the way that you have to be 21 years old to do any number of other things in our society that are far less deadly than owning a firearm.

it is the NRA with its choke hold over the Republican Party.

strong laws aimed at ending gun violence would actually be effective at accomplishing precisely what the goal is that House Democrats are talking about here.