[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9318]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    END THE EPIDEMIC OF GUN SILENCE

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, this picture of 
these murdered children was from 3 years ago, but the mass murders 
continue, and the American people are saying, ``Enough,'' and they are 
demanding that this Congress put an end to our epidemic on gun silence; 
but, for nearly two decades, there has been a gag order in place that 
has prevented scientific research into the causes and cures of gun 
violence.
  The 1997 omnibus budget bill contained language that was made for the 
gun lobby. It targeted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
with the intended effect of prohibiting any federally funded research 
on the serious public health issue of gun violence. Sadly, the pro-gun 
lobby was successful in its efforts to censor science--this despite the 
fact that guns have taken more lives in this country since 1968 than 
were lost in all of the wars this Nation has ever fought.
  So I urge my colleagues to support my bill, H.R. 2612, to restore 
funding--to lift the gag rule--for research on gun violence and 
prevention, because, on this issue, the science is literally killing 
us.

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