The committee of the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of an gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities to experience violence. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and neighborhood. Civilian assault weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. They have no purpose but to kill as many as possible as quickly as possible. By allowing killers to rapidly fire targets without stopping to reload, assault weapons are designed for bloodshed. State laws have proven too easy
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A absolute and true friend to the National Archives and Records Administration as well to the Gerald R Ford foundation. How a friend is Garrett Graff well just to put it in a kind of small perspective garrett is such a friend that when garrett writes out his check every year to the irs, garrett loves believe that every single comes to the National Archives for our usage. Im not sure. Im not sure that is true garrett in fact, it probably goes like the tailhook of an f 35, but my friend, its the thought that counts ladies and gentlemen, Garrett Graff. Its. Yeah. Joel just stole what is normally my opening joke when i speak at a president ial library or museum, which is im just a huge fan of. The president ial libraries and museums across the country and ive been lucky. I think ive done research now at all. But three of them and its theyre just a wonderful Network Across the country resource for history. So im very appreciative of the work that archivists do across the country. So thank y
Good evening and welcome to our grand rapids audience in the cspan viewers out there, were im Gleaves Whitney i had the privilege of serving in this Great Institution with great partners at the National Archives and your foundation. And i said the director without foundation three years. Yeah, we could have. These are Interesting Times which are. Wars and rumors of wars released deep economic challenges here at home and abroad, dysfunction in our government institutions, americans expressing a deep crisis, confidence in leaders. Its decisions. All the things our national guard, our selves sounds familiar, no doubt. And it describes what was going on a half century ago. It seems sorry that if you look at the service upstairs, you now one of the questions the American People faced during that time, also this period, a half century, our nation was band supported the bicentennial celebration of 1976. It formed within us in that endeavor and that same question today is whether the United St
A absolute and true friend to the National Archives and Records Administration as well to the Gerald R Ford foundation. How a friend is Garrett Graff well just to put it in a kind of small perspective garrett is such a friend that when garrett writes out his check every year to the irs, garrett loves believe that every single comes to the National Archives for our usage. Im not sure. Im not sure that is true garrett in fact, it probably goes like the tailhook of an f 35, but my friend, its the thought that counts ladies and gentlemen, Garrett Graff. Its. Yeah. Joel just stole what is normally my opening joke when i speak at a president ial library or museum, which is im just a huge fan of. The president ial libraries and museums across the country and ive been lucky. I think ive done research now at all. But three of them and its theyre just a wonderful Network Across the country resource for history. So im very appreciative of the work that archivists do across the country. So thank y