[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE MORE

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise to associate myself 
with the remarks of the legendary John Lewis.
  I also stand in praise of Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who, yesterday, 
came with all the grace and eloquence to talk about the need to bring 
the country together in the aftermath of what took place up in Boston, 
and to bring comfort to families.
  Yesterday, the other body brought little comfort to families, 
especially families from Newtown, Connecticut, who had traveled there, 
who had lobbied, and were looking for a commonsense, practical answer 
to a solution that plagues this country.
  They got a vote. The vote was 54-46. But no fifth-grader waking up in 
America today says how could you get a vote of 54-46 and lose?
  This is the most deliberative body in America, the House of 
Representatives, and we owe the people of this country, whether from 
Newtown, or whether from Aurora or wherever you are, in Chicago or 
across this great Nation of ours, we come here with a responsibility to 
vote.

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