Summer Lee

If it's being used multiple times to murder children and teachers, then it's the issue.

It's time that we do something.

Assault weapons, like I said before, are designed to kill the most amount of people in the smallest amount of time.

Adding more guns to the equation is just accepting that we've failed.

The victims, whether they're children or adults or whoever, they should not have that same occupational hazard that we're gathered up to today.

If you look at research, as recent as 2019, you can see that in that 10-year period there were significantly less mass shootings.

Our children should be first and not be used as hostages, my friends, and that's what's happening right now today.

Noted for the record that since the killings in Sandy Hook, 25,000 children have died by gun violence, which evidence that wherever we are they're making schools a combat zone.

The legislation that we have is updated and modifies the distinction between one group versus another group, which is why we absolutely need, when I say group of assault weapons, why we absolutely need the law to be passed now.

The Federal Government is owing to the victims.

Since Sandy Hook, 25,000 children have been killed by a gun--25,000.

When someone is shot with a gun, a child, an assault weapon, they're dead. They can't be brought back.

A universal background check saves lives.

I think it is imperative that we have an assault weapons ban signed by the President of the United States.

I'm angry. Legislators are not supposed to be enraged.

We should all be sick and tired of gun violence and violence by weapons of war.

While the Act took a step forward on gun violence prevention, we have so much more to do.

I introduced a simple bill honoring Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safety Storage Act.

This attempted politicization by the former President's administration, during his tenure, of the intelligence gathering of DHS I&A is gravely concerning.

I've said before that an agency's most significant asset is its people.

You guys want Roe v. Wade overturned. We can do that for you.

Let it be very clear. Ethics bounds us all.

I think it is important to distinguish between even though we want to stop that flow, to distinguish fleeing families with children from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, et cetera, from the work, the strain of cartels, of smuggling, of human…

Immigration, defense of the border, protection of the border, is a Federal responsibility. Is that not correct?

Let me build on the tragedy that fell upon the second-in-line to the Presidency, the Speaker of the House.