The hearing will come to order. This hearing is entitled congress and the frank bringing congressional mailing standards into the 21st century. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Happy halloween everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero, congressman, to be able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankenstein, have houses ghoulish mailing standards have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go with the official on spooky title for the record. Like most of the issues that fall into this commencement date, its very inside baseball. To most people frank is a name or aam hot dog but the reality s for members of congress, congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we can indicate with our constituents and every time we respond to constituent request or send newsletters or send synopsis te upcoming town halls we use frank. So surprised with the rise o
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious god, we give you thanks forgiving us another day. For giving us another day. Help us this day to draw closer to you, so that with your spirit and aware of your presence among us we may all face the tasks of this day. Bless the members of the peoples house. Help them to think clearly, speak confidently, and act courageously in the belief that all Noble Service is based upon patience, truth and love. May these decisive days through which we are living make them genuine enough to maintain their integrity, great enough to be humble, and good enough to keep their faith always regarding Public Office as a sake faith, always regarding Public Office as a sacred trust. Give them the wisdom and currently to not fail their fellow citizens nor you. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro temp
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Do you have any sense of what Senate Republicans would support when it comes to Gun Legislation . Speaker pelosi you would have to ask them. I know what the American People support. Common sense background check legislation. That is what we passed almost 200 days ago, in the earliest days of the democratic majority. We passed legislation that has been sitting over there for bout 200 days. 100 and people they die from gun violence, many of them children and teenagers. Many of those deaths could have been prevented with background hecks. From your standpoint, our background checks a starting point or and in point end point . Speaker pelosi background checks are a point because they save the most lives. Other initiatives all of are important. But what saves the most lives is ack on checks. This legislation expands on background check laws that are there. We did not have online sales. This is about online sales, gun shows, persontoperson sales. Those are ways people circumvent. Background