It is that trial penalty, the mandatory minimums, and the discretion in sentencing taken away from judges and given to prosecutors that really informs our outcomes.

The right to trial is established in our Constitution. However, we know that over the past few decades plea bargains have largely replaced trials in our justice system.

we passed H.R. 1446, which would be the enhanced background closing of that Charleston loophole.

the mission of the FBI is to protect the American people and to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

I absolutely admire the work and the commitment of the folks who are administering NICS.

I do hope that FBI will partner with us, the legislative branch and this Administration, to do something about gun violence.

I am particularly interested in how Russia's escalating disinformation campaigns attacking the integrity of our American elections...

Americans can and should have confidence in our election system, and certainly our democracy.

it's going to be all-hands-on-deck to reduce and, I hope, someday eliminate the scourge of gun violence.

As a Representative from Pennsylvania, and someone who spent decades representing voters seeking access to the ballot, we recently lived that reality, and I saw the detrimental impact of strict voter ID laws firsthand.

I would just seek unanimous consent to introduce into the record the memorandum opinion of Judge McGinley in the Pennsylvania case, Applewhite v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that outlines the judge's findings in support of his decision that the strict voter ID law in Pennsylvania was an unconstitutional restriction on voters' rights.