[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SICK OF SILENCE

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, our country continues to grieve with Orlando 
and the LGBT community in the wake of the deadly shooting at the Pulse 
nightclub.
  The American people are angry; they are anxious; they are afraid; and 
they have good reason to be. This is the deadliest in a long list of 
recent attacks. Yet, after each mass shooting, many of my Republican 
colleagues have stood in the way of efforts to protect Americans from 
the next one.
  Monday night we held yet another moment of silence on the House 
floor. I have lost track of how many moments of silence we have had 
since I have been in Congress. Mr. Speaker, I am sick of silence.
  Forty-nine people were murdered this weekend in Orlando, and that is 
not just a number. Those are 49 young men and women who had parents and 
boyfriends and girlfriends who loved them and whose lives will never be 
the same. Moments of silence are not enough to honor these victims, and 
they do nothing to prevent future attacks.
  Mr. Speaker, I am calling on you to allow us to vote on reinstating 
the assault weapons ban and legislation to prevent suspected terrorists 
from buying firearms.

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