[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     GUNS AND GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE

  (Mr. PETERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks ago, I stood in this Chamber and 
called on Congress to take action to improve our Nation's background 
check system for firearm purchases.
  Despite an overwhelming amount of support across the country for 
universal background checks and bipartisan legislation to implement 
them, this Congress has still done nothing. It is just the latest 
example of Congress failing to do the work of the American people. The 
debt ceiling and transportation funding are two others.
  Last week, I joined with our former police chief and Republican mayor 
and a group of moms and other San Diegans who now imagine the 
possibility of sending their children to school and never seeing them 
again, and we called on Congress to take action, to do something.
  In San Diego, keeping guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't 
have them is not a partisan issue. In fact, more than 90 percent of 
Americans support increasing background checks and closing loopholes. I 
have brought the signatures of those San Diegans with me here to 
Washington and have personally delivered their requests for action to 
the Speaker of the House.
  It is time to get to work. It is time to do something.

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