[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THIS IS THE TIME TO ACT

  (Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we 
celebrated Fourth of July, the 240th birthday of our Nation's 
independence, and the celebrations were quite vivid in my district, 
which includes parts of Philadelphia, the birthplace of our Nation.
  One refrain I got often when walking in parades in my district 
yesterday, and I was really struck by it, was people calling out: 
``Thank you, thank you for the sit-in. I watched the sit-in. That's 
great.''
  I was really struck because, frankly, I have not had that experience 
of people so finely tuned to what is being broadcast on C-SPAN. It 
speaks to the desire for people that we address this issue and the 
frustration that is out there that we just have moments of silence, and 
then total silence.
  This is the time to act. No more Orlandos, no more Sandy Hooks, no 
more Auroras. Let's call up today the two bills that are supported by 
90 percent of the American people.

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