I'm not happily assessing anybody's style who thinks their political survival is more important than the survival of America's children.
Members had events all over the country to ask [McConnell] to bring up the bill. Don’t ask me what we haven’t done. We have done it. And if you are annoyed with my impatience, it’s because people are dying because Sen. McConnell hasn’t acted.
Americans across the country have called for action on gun violence and House Democrats and I have heeded their calls by advancing a measure for stronger background checks.
That’s how it’s supposed to work, John. Yet, Moscow Mitch is REFUSING to join the American people.
House Democrats have kept our promises and we won’t back down until Moscow Mitch addresses this epidemic.
I need you to stand with us. We can’t let up even for a moment. We have to keep raising our voices, expressing our outrage, and putting pressure on McConnell to act.