[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10178]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TINA MEINS SPEAKS FOR ME

  (Mr. TAKANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, over and over again my colleagues have 
pleaded with the majority to give us a vote on legislation that will 
protect Americans from gun violence. Those pleas and the pleas of 
millions of Americans continue to be ignored.
  So instead of my words, I am going to read the words of Tina Meins, 
whose father, Damian, was killed in San Bernardino last year: ``There 
is room in this national debate for reason, for compromise and for 
compassion,'' she wrote. ``Let us find common ground. Let's not be 
paralyzed because proposed solutions will not be perfect. If one person 
can be saved, isn't it worth the effort to fix this? Let's work 
together, please, for the good of everyone.''
  Well, Tina speaks for me, and she speaks for the thousands of 
families who have lost loved ones to gun violence in America.

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