[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  GUNS

  (Mr. PETERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, over a month ago, I stood in this Chamber 
and delivered a message from San Diegans who were calling on Congress 
to expand background checks for gun purchases. Since then, Congress has 
done nothing.
  Last week, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 
Springs. What did Congress do? Nothing.
  Yesterday, there were deadly shootings in Houston, Savannah, and, in 
San Bernardino, 14 people were killed at a social services center.
  Today, here we stand in the only building in the Nation that could do 
something to curb this awful violence, and we cannot even get the 
Speaker of this House to let Congress vote to let us act on one of the 
several proposed laws that many of my colleagues and I support.
  Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Moments of silence are not 
enough. Maybe, Mr. Speaker, instead of a moment of silence, the 
American people could get a moment of action--a moment of action that 
might keep their communities from being next.
  If we want to honor these victims and their families, then we should 
do our jobs, and we should act now.

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