[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DERELICTION OF DUTY

  (Mr. JEFFRIES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, on June 12, the worse mass shooting in the 
history of this great Republic took place in Orlando, Florida. It was 
an egregious act of terror, a vicious hate crime directed at the LGBT 
community, and an attack on our democracy.
  In times like this, the American people deserve real congressional 
leadership. The American people deserve legislation to prevent 
suspected terrorists on the no-fly list from being able to purchase 
weapons of war that are not used to hunt deer, but are used to hunt 
human beings, such as the 49 individuals who were viciously killed in 
Orlando, Florida.
  Instead, House Republicans brought us a brief moment of silence and 
then got back to business as usual. It is a shameless, shameful 
dereliction of duty, but it is what we have come to expect from this 
reckless Republican majority--and the American people deserve better.

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