If you are serious about doing something about violence, gun violence, and other: the House passed a universal background checks bill.

Instead, we're seeing a circus, a performance by partisan politicians who have hitched their wagons to the Trump train.

Make no mistake. If the concern about addressing violent crime addressed by my Republican colleagues was genuine, they would have acted.

We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us.

I fear that you have been revictimized by this hearing because this hearing is not going to provide that change.

We're the only country in the world that has mass shootings practically every other day.

There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

New York City's murder rate was 18 percent below the national average for the entire United States.

If my Republican colleagues were serious about violent crime and sincere in their efforts to law enforcement, they would have joined us in that effort.

Unlike our Republican colleagues, Democrats have consistently advanced policies to make all our communities... safer places to live.

This is a choice that we are making, to allow all the children of America to go into school worried that they're going to be the victim of a mass shooting.