It's simple: airlines shouldn't nickel and dime parents just to allow them to sit next to their young children.

If you get rid of those three agencies, there's no Federal mechanism or arm to actually prosecute violent crime at the Federal level.

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

I believe the Second Amendment is important, but I think protecting second-graders from being killed is important as well.

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

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.

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

We can and must do more. We must pass universal background checks.

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

So, a gun is the common denominator in eight out of 10 homicides. How can we take that away? We cannot do that. We must continue to fight for commonsense gun law.

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

If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State.