[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8608-8609]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ORLANDO, FLORIDA, TRAGEDY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise first of all to acknowledge my 
colleague, Congresswoman Corrine Brown, in whose district this heinous, 
terroristic, hateful act occurred. I acknowledge my hometown of 
Houston, where, as I stand here today, they are mourning with memorials 
that will be held today, Tuesday, and Wednesday in solidarity with the 
people of Orlando, Florida.
  I also rise with great pain in joining my colleague, Congresswoman 
Brown, to introduce legislation to push and to remind individuals about 
the violence that is taking place through the weapons of war that we 
are allowing to be sold on the streets of America.
  It is high time for this body to stop standing in memoriam and for a 
1-minute speech and to pass the ban on assault weapons and high-caliber 
bullets that are destroying and killing and destroying and killing. It 
has been told that there were bodies whose legs were taken off by the 
bullets. I ask this body

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to recognize that we can no longer talk, talk, talk. We must do, do, 
do.
  We will fight till our last breath to demand that the Constitution be 
respected, Mr. Speaker--as I end--the First Amendment, the right to 
free speech, and, yes, the Second Amendment, with the restrictions and 
the recognition that AR-15s are killing Americans.
  We must stop it now.

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