[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7906]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           MILLION MOM MARCH

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I spent last Sunday with hundreds of 
thousands of American moms on the Mall who had come to ask Congress to 
help protect their families from gun violence. And it was hard. It was 
hard to listen to mom after mom tell their stories of the loss of their 
children. But the reason it was hard was not just the heartache. The 
really hard part for me was to realize that 300 feet away from these 
hundreds of thousands of moms was the U.S. Capitol building, the place 
where we are charged to help American families, where this year the 
U.S. Congress has done nothing, nothing, nothing to help these families 
be protected from gun violence.

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  There is no protection with trigger locks, no closing of the gun show 
loophole. While this torrent of gun violence sweeps across us, the U.S. 
Congress does nothing. If this Congress refuses to act, may the heavens 
have mercy on us, because this November these mothers will not.

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