[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H859]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                RECOGNIZING GUN VIOLENCE SURVIVORS WEEK

  (Mr. MOULTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOULTON. Madam Speaker, 2 years ago, I was standing at a rally 
where the father of a gunshot victim, a father who lost his son to gun 
violence, spoke of all the things that he and others are doing to stop 
this senseless scourge, things that they are already doing.
  But then he turned to the crowd, and he said, ``But what is Congress 
doing?'' And tens of thousands of people, as if they had rehearsed it a 
hundred times, all said, together, ``Nothing.''
  ``But what is Congress doing?''
  ``Nothing.''
  Madam Speaker, for too long, Congress has done nothing. We have 
passed bills here in the House that take the right steps, but this 
alone is not enough. The Senate needs to do their job, and we need to 
make them law. Thoughts and prayers won't cut it, only action saves 
lives.

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