Do background checks on gun sales also relate to less domestic shootings and domestic disturbances?

So, indeed, if H.R. 8 were the law, there is a goodly chance or a chance that an individual would not have gotten a gun, and those church people would still be alive?

Do you think the people of Memphis could expect a reduction in that rate if we pass H.R. 8?

Fortunately, the United States Government is open, and, fortunately, when Donald Trump comes to this Chamber on February 5, he can say the state of the Union is that the government is open. Otherwise, the State of the Union would have been…

It was part of our charter. And except for the Civil War and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, we would still be there, and we are still fighting it today.

Our Constitution is a great document, I concur. But you have to remember that the original sin of this country was slavery.

It is amazing. You know, in Memphis, we had a statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and it was recently taken down.

It is amazing how that coincided with the felon voting issue.

Today the House of Representatives has a Member in great distress, and it causes all of us who are aware of that--and I think most of us are--sorrow. Representative Walter Jones is the Congressman from the Third Congressional District of…

I sponsored the bill in the Senate to restore voting rights, and that was put in by a House member, and I think it was done for pernicious basis.

I thank Mr. Nadler for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, I want to thank Mr. Clyburn for bringing this resolution, and I want to thank the Republican leadership, Mr. McCarthy and company, who have condemned white supremacist and white…

the President shall not have the power to pardon himself or herself, the President's brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, spouse, parent, child, grandchild, or spouse of the President's grandchild, the President's aunt, uncle…