[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            SENATE VOTE ON BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR GUN BUYERS

  (Ms. ESTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the House as the 
Representative for Newtown. Over the last 4 months, I've had the honor 
of getting to know many families in Newtown. These parents live with 
grief so deep that any mother or father can only begin to imagine.
  I was honored to join these families, Governor Malloy, and members of 
both parties as a bipartisan gun violence prevention law was signed 
into law in Connecticut.
  Connecticut has shown that Democrats and Republicans can work 
together, that a special interest and their small minority cannot stand 
in the way of common sense and doing the right thing.
  Yesterday was a shameful day. I'm outraged that 46 Senators prevented 
a compromise to reduce gun violence which 92 percent of the American 
people support. Forty-six Senators ignored the voices of the courageous 
Newtown families, who have paid the ultimate price of political 
inaction.
  I join the message of the Sandy Hook Promise and Mark Barden, who 
lost his son, Daniel, in the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary.
  Our hearts are broken. Our spirits are not.

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