Our country has serious issues that demand serious solutions, not cynical political circuses like this hearing.

Philadelphians and all Americans deserve a Congress that does its job and passes legislative solutions, not a Congress that spends all its time mired in political sideshows and dysfunction.

It also occurred to me that the gun pointed at my chest could have been a ghost gun.

What CeaseFire does--and I know this personally because I was a State representative--is work with doctors, with advocates, with elected officials at the State level, trying to change legislation to reduce gun violence.

Thank you, Chair, and I welcome all my colleagues to our great city of Philadelphia.

I ask unanimous consent to put this in to show that homicide is down 38.28 percent.

Today we have violence because it is easier than ever to access a firearm, and to access it illegally.

Children in this country are more likely to die of gun violence than any other cause.

In North Carolina, guns are now the leading cause of injury or death for children, surpassing car accidents.

Madam Speaker, mere hours after this House finally passed critical security aid for our democratic allies, I found myself on a train in the countryside of war-torn Ukraine. Along with a bipartisan group of colleagues, we were the first…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S. 474, the REPORT Act. I am pleased to cosponsor the House version of this legislation with my colleague and friend from Florida. I thank…