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.

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.

I think it's important for us to try and step in in that way.

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

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.

Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention... that have pushed crime and incarceration to their lowest levels in decades.

Compare that to Mr. Jordan's Ohio, where the homicide rate is 73 percent higher than in Manhattan.

On Monday, the horror, the terror, and the insanity of mass shootings came to our capital city, Nashville, Tennessee--most directly, the Covenant Presbyterian School. Six innocent victims passed. Three were children: Evelyn Dieckhaus…

I look forward to hearing from our esteemed panel of witnesses today.

I look forward to working with Chairman Graves, Acting Chairman Collins, our colleagues, our witnesses here today, and other stakeholders on the next FAA reauthorization bill.

Both drones and advanced air mobility or AAM, have the potential to both change how we travel and how we transport goods and services.