David Cicilline

It has been publicly reported from credible sources that in fact the president did lash out.

We have many more questions that he hasn't answered.

It was shocking. Here it is he says he respects Mr. Mueller. He's an honest man, he respects the men and women of the department, but he would not -- he was fearful because he had an audience of one.

He was very evasive. He was clearly contemptuous of Congress, didn't believe he should be participating in an oversight hearing.

The real question is, how did Matthew Whitaker become the acting attorney general. It was clear from his public statements, from the things he wrote, that he was auditioning for a job in the Trump administration and was a critic of Robert…

The only thing standing in the way of saving lives is a lack of political will.

I am grateful to Congresswoman Debbie Dingell for introducing H.R. 569, the Zero Tolerance for Domestic Abusers Act of 2019.

The Charleston loophole threatens local communities by enabling guns to fall into the hands of dangerous people.

H.R. 8 will make it harder for dangerous people to get their hands on guns and hurt themselves or others.

There is no constitutional impediment to passing life-saving gun laws.

We must invest in our collective future.

We must also do more to cover people at a high risk from committing violence who are not currently prohibited from purchasing guns.

I am grateful to Congressman Mike Thompson and this Committee for prioritizing H.R. 8, the bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019.

Ninety percent of federal background checks take only a few minutes, but in thousands of cases three days is not enough time to complete a check.

Congress should immediately re-institute the assault weapons ban.

Congress should pass legislation incentivizing more states to pass these life saving laws and providing funds for implementation and education.

I urge you to expand Brady background checks by voting for H.R. 8, legislation requiring background checks for virtually every gun transaction.

I implore you and your colleagues to pass legislation that will make us all safer by strengthening our nation's gun laws.

America's unique gun violence problem, explained in 17 maps and charts.

Instead, whether intentionally or not, the gun control proposals in H.R. 8 could turn law abiding citizens into criminals while also failing to achieve the stated purpose of reducing gun violence.

The new gun control restrictions currently being considered by the Democratic majority in H.R. 8 would not have prevented my shooting.

Based on similar gun control measures in states like California, H.R. 8 would not deter a criminal from engaging in criminal activity, and it won't decrease gun crime.

So, for those who would have you believe, oh, that the bad guys are never going to try to go buy a gun, nonsense. Utter nonsense.

The American people understand that we need to keep firearms out of the wrong hands, and yet it is 20 years later and we at the Federal level have shamefully done nothing about this issue.

Now the question is, why am I saying that? Because we have an opioid epidemic, and the President just declared it a public health crisis.