[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 12, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3006]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CHILDREN'S VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there is violence all around 
us; and I think it is important that we address the question head-on as 
the Members of the United States Congress and the legislating body that 
the American people look to.
  Guns do kill. And even if there are those who argue against the fact 
that people kill, guns do not, people use guns to kill. And our 
children have used guns to kill, so that 13 children die every day by 
the use of guns.
  It is time now to pass the Children's Violence Prevention Act, the 
simple and direct way of showing the American people that we mean 
business in saving our children.
  I call upon the Speaker to have a debate. I call upon him to review 
the gun laws across this Nation and find out, where States have 
enforced gun safety laws, and how children's deaths have come down.
  And then, Mr. Speaker, I refer you to the conflict that is going on, 
in Kosovo, although I support our troops, and I have been to the 
refugee camps, and I want to see the refugees go home. I think it is 
now time to have a pause in the bombing and for the allies to seek a 
negotiated settlement to end the Kosovo conflict and to make sure that 
the refugees go home sooner rather than later. The longer we wait the 
more delayed will be the refugees return with a secured place to their 
homeland. It is time now to seek peace in the Kosovo conflict, that 
will only begin if we stop the bombing for a period of time to allow 
the peace process to begin.

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