[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8887]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to stand with the 
families of those who fell in Sandy Hook who are here on this campus 
today to talk about unfinished business. I stand with them in mourning 
for those of their family members who died by senseless gun violence 
and thousands who have died since.
  I will soon leave this House to go to read the names of those who 
have died in Sandy Hook and beg my colleagues for once to come together 
and vote for universal background checks and gun storage laws that 
simply provide safety and security for our children--unfinished 
business.
  I stand here today, as well, to restore the trust to the American 
people about their privacy rights and civil liberties and ask my 
colleagues in a very bipartisan manner to rein in the number of private 
contractors--70 percent of the intelligence budget--and I intend to 
introduce legislation that will hopefully find an opportunity for 
bipartisan, thoughtful efforts to bring back the trust of the American 
people.
  Madam Speaker, we have unfinished business. I stand here to finish 
it.

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