Hearing to learn more about gun violence and its impact on Public Health. Lawmakers heard from doctors, a funeral home owner and a woman who lost her sons and brother to gun violence her sons and brother to gun violence. Good morning, everyone. [indiscernible] between the majority and minority i would ask for unanimous consent for the house members who are with us today, who are not members of the committee, that they be recognized or three minutes to forquestions recognized three minutes to ask questions. Many members will be allowed to make openings Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections, so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all thank you, everyone , for being here this morning. It is an honor for those of us that are not from on a very serious issue. This is the very first energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. As a Public Health issue. And
Only Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections, so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all thank you, everyone , for being here this morning. It is an honor for those of us that are not from on a very serious issue. This is the very first energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. As a Public Health issue. And this subcommittee has to has jurisdiction over Public Health issues in our country. I want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region, starting with congressman bobby rush, whose district we are in. Thank you, bobby, very much for inviting us, asking the subcommittee to come here. Congresswoman robin kelly, who is here to my left. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from the chicago region. And to representative Adam Kinzinger, from the state of illinois, a little further away, and mr. Kinsinger mak
Today who are not members of the committee that they be recognized for three minutes to ask questions after Committee Members have asked theirs and note only Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. First of all, thank you, everyone, for being here this morning. Its an honor for those of us that are not from chicago to be here here. Im anna eschew and this is the midwestern part of my family and its an honor to be here with my colleagues on a very serious issue and this is the first energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the gun violence epidemic in our country as a Public Health issue. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over Public Health issues in our country. I want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region starting with congressman bobby rush whose district we are in. Thank you, bobby, very much for
Issues. She also took questions from her constituents. This is about two hours. Hi everyone. [cheering] how is it going. [applause] good afternoon everybody. Hey malika. Lots of beautiful familiar faces, lots of people new faces. Welcome everybody. We are super excited, this is our monthly town hall and we are really excited and of course we are on track, we have not skipped a single month so weve kept on track for their promise at the beginning of the term, at least one town hall per month and this is nine out of nine town halls in addition to many, many local Community Events that we have been participating in. Very quickly before we start i want to acknowledge everyone here, our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Id like to acknowledge them. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. There we go. And marcus, sorry. Marcus is live streaming. Destiny, sorry and forgetting everything. And we have Translation Services this year today shes and we also have apollyon transla
This is mr. Thompsons focus has been on protecting the children, hence the name of this impasse on gun violence on children and the need to pass universal background checks. He is joined in that by congresswoman kelly, who has been a champion on saying while our hearts break, we mourn and we want to act upon the highmroe file events that have taken lives in our country, we must remember every single day in our cities and across the country, we lose young people to gun violence. Thanks mr. Phillips, a newlywed, taking the time, married just this weekend, it was very important to be here. Bobby rush has been a victim of gun violence in his own family. The list goes on from all of our distinguished members who can consider this of the highest priority. I also want to acknowledge the work that mr. Mcmurray talked about to ensure domestic tr tranquility. Yesterday was the birthday of our constitution. Yesterday was the birthday, its ratification. In it, as you know, as you quote in the beau