[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               GUN REFORM

  (Mr. PHILLIPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PHILLIPS. Madam Speaker, Jim Ramstad represented Minnesota's 
Third District in Congress as a principled Republican from 1991 to 
2009.
  His widow, Kathryn, a remarkable woman in her own right, wrote me 
last week and asked that I share her message with the country: ``Jim 
voted for the 1994 crime bill and its gun control measures. He was one 
of only six Republicans to cast what was clearly a difficult vote, but 
he felt so strongly about the compelling need to act and believed it 
was consistent with his bipartisan, pragmatic, and commonsense approach 
to fighting crime.
  ``After so many mass shootings, I cannot understand why Congress does 
not at the very least,'' she wrote, ``ban semiautomatic weapons like 
the AR-15 that have been used in so many recent mass shootings.''
  She continued, ``I feel very strongly about this and ask sincerely, 
what can we do to legislate reasonable legislation like in 1994?''
  What can she do? She asks; she and the country ask, I might add.
  We all know what we can do. And I say, let's do it.

                          ____________________