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Doc Hastings: “The gentleman doesn't have the prerogative of what the minority has, and that is an opportunity to offer a motion to…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2015
The gentleman doesn't have the prerogative of what the minority has, and that is an opportunity to offer a motion to recommit. He is correct that there are two bills that are being brought here in this grab-bag rule, but if he says that today is not the day for us to discuss gun violence, then I want to ask him: What day is it that we are supposed to discuss gun violence? People are being killed all over this Nation, and we have an epidemic, and we are constantly not doing anything about it. If it is not today, when? And if it is not us, who? Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Napolitano), my distinguished colleague and good friend.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington
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Oct 8, 2015

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