At not 00 a. M. Eastern and pacific on cspan. The white house did not release an address from the president. Senator sharad brown of ohio gave the democratic address. He called for gun safety laws. The shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio happened one month ago. Hi, im sherrod brown, United States senator from ohio. I want to wish all American Workers a happy labor day, particularly you who are not able to spend the day with families and friends at picnics and barbecues because you dont have the day off. You work hard to support your families, often for too little pay. That is why we celebrate the dignity of work, and honor all American Workers. ,ongress should be at work too to pass commonsense gun safety laws that we so desperately need in our country. Four weeks ago, less than 14 hours after the tragedy in el paso, my home state of ohio woke up to terrible news that nine people had been killed and 127 injured by another mass shooting, this time in dayton. It was the second mass shooting in less than 24 hours in our country, and the third in a week. Next to the bravery of Dayton Police officers, the shooter was stopped within 32 seconds. Just 32 seconds. He fired 41 shots, taking nine lives and destroying countless others. There is no reason one man should have been able to kill nine people and injured dozens more in less than one minute. Think about that. When i called the mayor of dayton, and whaley, she told me whaley, she told me she had received calls from mayors all over the country. It is incredible how many mayors have been through this before. Enough. When will it end . Immediately, democrats began to call on republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell to bring the senate back into session, to start work, to come back to washington and vote on commonsense background checks. Daysouse passed it 184 ago. That is six months sitting in the senate graveyard, this bill. And still, Mitch Mcconnell has refused to allow the senate to even debate it, let alone vote on it. In dayton, at miami valley hospital, i looked President Trump in the eye when he was visiting the hospital, and i implored the president to call mcconnell and ask him to hold a vote immediately. That was more than three weeks ago, 23 days ago. ,resident trump still has congress has ignored millions of americans, the overwhelming percentage of americans who want reasonable gun safety measures. Instead, he is done the bidding of gun lobbyists. We have seen this pattern play out far too many times. It is not guns, they say, it is mental illness. But those same politicians repeatedly cut funding for Mental Health care. The president and Congressional Republicans need to stop stigmatizing mental illness, stop taking orders from the nra, need to break their addiction to gun lobby money and need to start acting to keep people safe. People dont have to keep dying. We have the power in congress right now. Come back the day after labor day. We have the power to stop it. This should be a republican issue, shouldnt be a democratic issue. This is about keeping americans safe in their homes, workplaces, churches and schools. We know what we need to do. All it takes, all it takes is the political courage to do it. For every mass shooting that makes the headlines, there are so many other americans whose lives are taken by gun violence who dont get the same kind of attention. That has to end. The only way we can fight back against the power and money of the gun lobby is through collective action. Millions of ordinary americans say, enough, demanding the president lead and protect the people he serves. I think about the words of the people in dayton after the doack, erupting in chants, something, do something, do something. That weekend i joined a rally in my hometown of cleveland that of ordinaryo a sea people coming together for change. Those activists give me hope. Change rarely stops in washington. We make progress because of grassroots movements of americans all over our country demanding action. Dr. King said that progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. Progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It rolls in because of ordinary citizens making your voices heard, working for change. I want to tell the president , listen to these americans. Mr. President , you owe it to the people of dayton and el paso and gilroy and Virginia Beach and Thousand Oaks and santa fe and parkland, and on and on the tragic list goes. You owe it to the millions of americans whose lives were taken by gun violence. Those millions of americans who want you to listen and to do something. Q a,nday night on university of pennsylvania law professor on Free Expression on College Campuses on the conflict surrounding an opinion piece she coauthored in the philadelphia inquirer. This ruffled a lot of people, that not all cultures are like. We were talking this code of behavior that was functional and particularly suited to our technological democratic capitalist society, and comparing it to other cultures which are not as functional. We gave some examples, and that immediately caused a firestorm. 8 00 p. M. Night at eastern on cspans q a. 1850s americans generally trusted their congressmen, but did not trust congress as an institution, nor did congress trust each other. By 1860, many congressmen were routinely armed, out of fear that their opponents might kill them. Andell history professor author Joanne Freeman will be our guest on indepth sunday from noon until 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Miss freemans latest book is field of blood. Her other titles include the essential hamilton, hamilton writing, and affairs of honor. Join the conversation. Then at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, and his latest book, the moral majority, been how ponders whether evangelicals are choosing power over christian values. The argument is tempting but dangerous. It contributes to keeping a system in place that takes accountability out of the system. Way toalso is an easy bring in Something Like evangelical system or any other fate evangelicalism or any other faith, and use that to get votes, which seems like the worst possible way you could use faith. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. The house will be in order. Cspan hasears provided america with unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events from washington dc end around the country, so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. This week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to George Mason University professor duminda wijesekera. Professor wijesekera, what do you do at George Mason University . Prof. Wijesekera i do research mostly related to cybersecurity and its consequences on the transportation systems. I have a large group of students who work on radio breakers,atic connected breakers, some on