[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12670-12671]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LISTEN TO THE MILLENNIALS

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on the Gun Violence Prevention Day 
of Action to highlight the voices of my district's young people.
  Nearly one-third of my constituents are millennials. These young 
people are smart, they are active, and they are very optimistic about 
their future.
  This summer I asked them a simple question: What is the most 
important issue Congress should be working on? Despite all of the 
challenges facing young people, from mounting student debt to growing 
income inequality, their answer was clear: Do something about gun 
violence.
  For young people, gun violence is a harsh reality. They have seen it, 
they have lived it, and they have lost friends and family to it.
  Since 2013, there have been 192 school shootings, including one at 
Hillside Elementary School in my district. Schools are supposed to be 
places of learning, not war zones.
  More than 80 percent of young people, including 83 percent of young 
Republicans, support commonsense background checks for all gun sales. 
This one commonsense solution to help prevent gun violence is what we 
need to do. We need to do our job and pass this legislation today.

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  Mr. Speaker, it is time that we start listening to these young 
people. Let's ensure a background check for every gun sale and help 
stop this senseless violence.

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