[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HEAR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, after Orlando, the largest mass shooting in 
our history, Democrats focused the Congress and the country on the 
urgent need to expand background checks. Many jurisdictions, including 
the Nation's Capital, have strong gun safety laws, but they are 
countermanded daily by congressional failure to pass national 
legislation to keep criminals from bringing guns from neighboring 
jurisdictions.
  Eighty-one percent of the American people support background checks 
before purchase of a deadly weapon. They want Congress to check the 
recent spike in gun violence nationwide. They want us to pass H.R. 
1217, our bipartisan background check bill. Hear the American people.

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