[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ORLANDO SHOOTING

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the House stood to bow our 
heads in a moment of silence for gun violence on the House floor for 
the 27th time since the horrific shooting of children at Sandy Hook 
Elementary; this time, for the unspeakable murders that took place in 
Orlando.
  A moment of silence for gun violence; that is what we do. We have 
stood, and we have prayed.
  One time, I stood up and said: Now, let's do something. We are not 
short of solutions.
  The American people cannot believe that the Republicans have voted 
against a bill that says that people on the suspected terrorist watch 
list should not be able to buy guns. That is right. They would not 
support that law. They won't support a ban on assault weapons that have 
no other purpose than to kill people.
  Enough is enough. That silence is a deafening silence. We cannot 
stand to do that anymore without taking real action.

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