[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 34]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         SUPPORTING PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE

  (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 in support of the President's actions 
to address our Nation's epidemic of gun violence.
  Yesterday at the White House, I joined with families from Newtown, 
Connecticut, which I am proud to represent, and with families from 
across this great country as the President outlined four steps within 
the current law to improve gun violence prevention.
  First, strengthening background checks. If you are in the business of 
selling firearms, whether at a gun show or online, your customers 
should have to go through a background check.
  Second, improving enforcement of the background check system so that 
it works better and faster.
  Third, expanding access to mental health treatment and to tear down 
barriers to implementing existing law.
  And, fourth, directing lifesaving new research into innovative 
technologies to make guns safer.
  These are small but meaningful steps to address a public health 
crisis about which this House has been astoundingly silent. It is time 
for this House to honor the victims of gun violence, not with moments 
of silence, but with days of action. We can and we must do better to 
save American lives.

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