[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 177 (Thursday, October 26, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 HOUSE MUST ACT NOW TO END GUN VIOLENCE

  (Ms. SCANLON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, my heart is breaking for the parents, 
children, friends, and neighbors in Lewiston, Maine, who woke up today 
to the unfathomable grief of yet another mass shooting.
  We do not have to live like this. My constituents know it, and, Mr. 
Speaker, your constituents know it, too.
  Americans are disgusted by Congress' failure to check the gun 
violence that is so rampant across our country, and they should be. Gun 
violence now impacts all of us, in urban areas, in rural areas, and in 
red and blue States. We must work together to address the gun violence 
crisis.
  The House can and must act now to consider the numerous gun violence 
prevention bills that are waiting to be brought to the floor and that a 
majority of Americans, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, 
support.
  We call on Speaker Johnson to bring these commonsense and 
constitutional bills to the floor as soon as possible. Our 
constituents, our children, deserve to know where their Representatives 
stand on these bills. The very least we can do is have the courage to 
show them.

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