[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              GUN VIOLENCE

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, we are here with a very 
simple plea this morning with 5-minutes and this afternoon with 1-
minutes.
  We know the Speaker is an honorable man. We know that the chairman of 
the Rules Committee, Mr. Sessions, is an honorable man. We in the 
minority are just asking for two commonsense, simple votes, both that 
have bipartisan support and sit here waiting to be discharged. But in 
the minority, it is the only voice that we have.
  This minority party represents, actually, a majority of the American 
citizens, and we can't get a vote on what the American people are 
crying out for. Mr. Speaker, 85 to 95 percent--depending upon what poll 
you read--believe that there should be a bill that does not provide 
terrorists who are on the no-fly list with a gun. Also, people believe 
that there should be background checks to keep guns out of the hands of 
criminals.
  There have been more than 1,000--1,000--mass murders since Sandy 
Hook. We cannot be silent anymore. We respectfully ask that our 
colleagues in the majority who control the floor allow us the simple 
dignity of what we take an oath here for: a vote.

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