Tom Rice: “If we can't get these ports dredged, then, obviously, we are putting our manufacturers in the United States at a huge…”

What glares at you when you read this opinion is about a big omission in the background-check procedure.

Tom Rice voted to impeach Donald Trump. He says he's proud of that vote. He says if it costs him his career, so be it.

This is a bill on which we can find consensus, and it is real.

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.