[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4988-H4989]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CONGRESS SOLVES PROBLEMS THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT CANNOT

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, Members have been coming forth 
all afternoon, talking about the fact that our constituents are feeling 
great anxiety. They feel and they look to Congress, and they think 
there are some issues here that we can deal with in our communities.
  We are going to be having some very serious and deep conversations 
about some of the concerns that we have, but there are a few issues 
that this House--the people's House--needs to deal with while our 
constituents are dealing in their own houses with some of the concerns 
that are addressed by education, by poverty, by guns.
  There are too many guns in their communities. We have been hearing 
repeatedly that we can close the gun show loophole here in Congress, in 
the people's House, and we should. We can close the fact that there are 
people who can fly today who are on no-fly lists. We can change that in 
the people's House.
  We have to get on this, and that is why it is discouraging when there 
is time--when there are hours and minutes and days--that we are not 
working on these issues. People look to us. They want us to solve those 
problems that local government cannot solve alone.

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