Tom Rice: “We are fighting for American competitiveness, economic competitiveness.”

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

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.

On February 8, President Biden said that if Russia invaded Ukraine, America would impose crippling sanctions. On February 24, President Putin kept to his word and invaded Ukraine. President Biden has since then slow-walked the sanctions…

I would remind my friend, the majority leader, that the reason that this bill is not bipartisan is there has been no effort to make it bipartisan. There have been zero committee meetings on this. Ms. Pelosi uses COVID as an excuse to keep…