Pelosi Floor Speech Ahead of Vote on H.R. 8, The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
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Contact: Speaker’s Press Office, 202-226-7616 Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the Floor of the House of Representatives ahead of the vote on H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. Below are the Speaker’s remarks: Speaker Pelosi. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his leadership as Chair of the Judiciary Committee, for bringing us to this place promptly – a historic day in the Congress of the United States. I thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank our distinguished colleague from California, Mr. Mike Thompson, for his relentless, persistent leadership to make America safer by bringing forth commonsense background check legislation. He is a gun owner, a veteran. He's been on both sides of the gun. He is a hunter, he is an advocate for the Second Amendment, and as he said, if this did anything to diminish that, he would not have his name on it. I rise in support of this strong bipartisan bill, Mr. Thompson, and join you in commending Mr. King of New York for making this initiative bipartisan from the start – in the previous Congress and now. And it is a long-overdue, commonsense action to end the epidemic of gun violence in America. Let us salute again the persistent leadership of so many in this body and, again, Mr. Thompson, as chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. You worked in a bipartisan way to protect our communities and we're grateful to you for that. But you know, we can do all the inside maneuvering that we want and that is really important and essential. But without the outside mobilization, we cannot enjoy the success of saving lives and making progress. So, I want to thank the courageous advocates who are here
