[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 58 (Thursday, March 30, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          DERELICTION OF DUTY

  (Ms. BALINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BALINT. Madam Speaker, this week I have heard from grandfathers, 
moms, students, and even from my Uber driver the other night, all 
asking some version of the same question, which is, how can we continue 
to allow our children to get murdered in their schools?
  This week, six Nashville families are heartbroken. The parents of 
three 9-year-olds are grieving. They will join the families of 
thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of American 
families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. Four hundred 
American children have been gunned down this year already.
  It is unbelievable that it is happening in this Nation.
  I do not accept that this is the cost of freedom in this country. 
Americans have said overwhelmingly that they want us to do something 
about it. We in Congress actually could do something about it. We can 
vote on the floor of this Chamber for background checks and to ban 
assault weapons.
  Throwing up our hands and saying there is nothing that we can do is a 
dereliction of duty.
  I stand with the children of America.

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