Tom Rice: “We need to do more. We need to do better.”

I thank the gentlewoman from the First District of South Carolina for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, H.R. 264. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend. Will the gentleman put on his mask, please.

After the killings of the nine people in the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a deranged individual, the families of the deceased sued the Federal Government for failure to catch his issues before they issued him a…

Too often when we see tragedies like this, in our immediate reaction, we try to go too far, and we can't find a solution that we can get across the line.

We have to realize we have to get a majority, right? We have to reach consensus.