[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4975]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A VOTE ON NO FLY, NO BUY

  (Mr. THOMPSON of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, Republican leaders are 
recessing the House for 7 weeks without their taking a single vote on 
legislation to help stop the mass gun violence that has become far too 
common in our country.
  More than 30 people are killed every day by someone who uses a gun. 
Do the math. That means, by the time the House comes back from the 
summer recess, in 52 days, over 1,560 Americans may have been killed by 
someone who was using a gun.
  We can't wait for more innocent lives to be cut short by someone 
using a gun. We need to vote on bipartisan, pro-Second Amendment no 
fly, no buy and comprehensive background check legislation to help keep 
guns away from those who shouldn't have them--terrorists, criminals, 
domestic abusers, and the dangerously mentally ill.
  Mr. Speaker, it is wrong; it is irresponsible; it is dangerous to 
send us home without giving us a vote on this important bipartisan 
legislation. Give us a vote. Let us do the work that the American 
people sent us here to do.

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