lower the individual rate, and then they did. now we will raise it again to repeal salt. we re very proud of what we have done. as you know, the republicans keep saying, we should be working. well, we sent over 400 bills. 275 of them sitting on mitch mcconnell s desk 400 but 275 of those at least are bipartisan. the range of subjects is you ve heard me say it but bears repeating that includes all of our top ten pieces of legislation, bipartisan background checks. people have to have a background check unless they buy it at a gun show, online or some kind of straw transaction. so this is not creating background checks. it is expanding them. in south carolina one is hr-8.
is hr8, the other 1112. 295 days ago we sent those bills to mitch mcconnell, the grim reaper. i have news for him, he may think they re dead on arrival there but they re alive and well in the general public and every day that he does not take up that legislation he knows it will pass. he fears it will pass if he takes it up. every day that he does not pass it, 100 people die. not all of them by gun violence and not all would be saved by the legislation, but some. we urge him to take up that lifesaving legislation. the list goes on. paycheck fairness, equal pay for equal work. violence against women act. about women. the legislation to raise the minimum wage of the 30 million people who will get a pay raise with the increase in the minimum wage. over 20 million of them are
monday. and it has been almost two years since a former student opened fire at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, the deadliest high school shooting in u.s. history where 17 people were kill and 17 others injured. now the father of one of those victims is speaking out in a scathing new op-ed directed at president trump and mitch mcconnell. fred guttenburg writes in this op-ed, there is more to be done. until this white house and mcconnell are ready to stop politicizing gun violence and to complete the work sent to them by the house of representatives, more americans will die. we ll hear from fred guttenburg in a moment. but i want to share this. since the parkland shooting and many others, there has been a loud chorus for change. but not much has actually happened. at least on the federal level. we are still waiting for the senate to take up two bills the house passed back in february. hr-8 known as the bipartisan background checks act of 2019.
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of the epidemic violence we ve seen in the inner city, suburbs, and everywhere else in this country in the last 20 years. one of the surviving kids in the high school at santa clarita grabbed me and said effectively i knew this day was coming. that s the mentality of kids going to school, okay, it s our turn, it s our time to be the ones on tv to have the name of our school and town add to the list. what senator blumenthal was talking about there was taking up hr-8, a measure that passed through the house on party lines effectively for federal universal background checks. mitch mcconnell will not take up the bill. we ve said it how many times on this show, a million times that universal background checks have 92% approval in this country, including among republicans, including among gun owners, and it s including among nra members. nra members and it s the small group of nra leadership that s pushing people in congress to not take up the bill like mitch mcconnell. we should say