Parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, madam speaker. What if the headline in the morning paper was slightly different . What if we had a disease that had killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . You think the nation would demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 100,000 people a year, killed and injured, congress would be in a frenzy. Yesterday we found two minutes for a moment of silence and we moved on. Un violence is a Public Health hazard. Every bit hazard. Every bit as important as any other disease or outbreak. Ours is the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from death and injury, there guns on a massive scale. After y
Freedom and oppression better than service men and women. They fight our nations wars, they risk their lives to defend our constitution. Sadly, the threat to our constitutions not just from foreign enemies. Sometimes sadly the right here in the halls of congress. In my short three months here ive seen attempted infringements on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and 10th amendments. Hats hard to believe. Just this past summer we had members of congress obstructing the peoples work here. Sitting on the house. An agenda that seeks to deprive us of the very rights our Founding Fathers sought to preserve with the constitution and the bill of rights. Anyone can do a plane reading of the constitution and see the right to keep and bear arms is named right there, to be applied at the individual level. The rest of the bill of rights is almost certainly talking about is certainly talking about rights at the individual level and the Second Amendments no exception. Justice scali