[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. SERRANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, when you think about it, it is a very 
simple solution to think about: If you can't fly because you are too 
dangerous to be on a plane and you are a threat to the country, why 
would you be allowed to buy a gun? Yet the gun lobby is so strong that 
our colleagues in the Republican Party could not see fit to change 
that.
  Secondly, we have another threat in this country and that we are not 
paying attention to. We have a Zika epidemic that is brewing. It 
started already. It is hurting the territories. It is going to hurt 
Florida in a strong way, and it will move north. Then it might be too 
late, when we have so many people sick.
  Why would they leave town and run away from real issues when they 
could have stayed here and faced the American people by doing the right 
thing? What are they going to say now to the American people when they 
ask: Why didn't you protect the children? Why didn't you protect the 
pregnant women? Why didn't you stop crazy people or people who need 
help from getting on an airplane with a gun?
  That is the big issue that we have to deal with.

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