The lawmakers were flanked by victims and advocates, in addition to medical professionals, that they invited to speak about their personal experiences involving gun violence.
House Democrats continued Tuesday to push Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, to immediately recall his chamber from August recess to act on gun control legislation passed by the House earlier this year.
The majority leader revealed that the House Judiciary Committee, the panel which has jurisdiction over gun legislation,"will be coming back [from recess] and they're going to address" gun violence. Hoyer did not offer a specific timeline, but a congressional aide familiar with the talks toldthat Labor Day week has been floated as a potential return date, which would be one week early.
Representative Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, recollected about how a mother of a 5-year-old daughter on the autistic scale who is about to start school for the first time was terrified, not knowing whether to buy her child"the backpack that she wants, or a bulletproof backpack." "I stand before you not just as a survivor of gun violence, or a Brady board member, but as a trauma surgeon, as one of many health care professionals that are front and center of taking care of these patients day in and
"My dad was shot three times and survived his wounds. My mom was shot and killed with a single bullet to the back," he said."Neighbors there that day said that she had begged for her life and was able to get up and run. She made it about 10 steps before that bullet shot and killed her and she she died before she hit the ground. I will never know if that's true."
Responding to the Democrats' remarks, a McConnell spokesperson referred to a recent interview McConnell gave to a Kentucky radio station about returning to Congress early and the ongoing bipartisan talks surrounding new gun control measures.
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