[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 144 (Tuesday, September 10, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

  (Mr. SCHNEIDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHNEIDER. Mr. Speaker, following a summer of horrific gun 
violence, we can no longer accept congressional failure to take 
concrete action. Mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, Dayton, and Odessa, 
as well as the unceasing daily gun violence in communities across our 
country, including close to my home in Chicago, define the summer of 
2019. I hope the fall of 2019 will be remembered as the time when our 
leaders finally began to address our Nation's gun violence epidemic.
  The simple fact is, this House already passed bipartisan bills on 
universal background checks and closing the Charleston loophole. This 
is commonsense legislation that more than 90 percent of Americans 
support. It would have closed the loophole that the Texas shooter used 
to acquire his weapon.
  But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell astonishingly continues to 
carry the water for the NRA and refuses to even allow a simple up or 
down vote on this bill. We need to tell Mr. McConnell and the NRA that 
enough is enough. People are needlessly dying. The victims and their 
loved ones deserve more than mere thoughts and prayers. Congress must 
act now.

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