Upcoming retirement. Since my very first day in the senate walking through this door back here to be sworn in with johnny escorting me, ive come to revere this guy. Hes been a mentor that ive looked up to. Hes been a great leader for our state for many years. Hes been a reliable and effective colleague. Most of all, hes been a friend whom i deeply cherish. It will be hard to see him go, but the reality is he wont go. Hell still be involved here. Im sure ill get the phone calls about when we might have disagreed on a vote or why didnt i think about this. But he has been a tremendous partner for me these last four years. However, johnny has left a profound legacy thats worth celebrating, one that we should all strive to follow here in this body. He epitomizes the best for this body, the United States senate. His legacy can be summed up in one word service. No matter what he does, johnny puts other people before himself and this has continued since the first day i knew him when he was run
And others on Gun Legislation. Senator schumer waiting one. Inute for the mayor senator schumer are you with the mayor . [indiscernible conversation] senator schumer welcome. Great. Ok, lets get started. M very proud to be joined im very proud to be joined by, of course, my friend and colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative scobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson. Too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport, a gentleman came over to me and said thank you for what youre doing, i lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odessa to say nothing about the daily lives lost by gun violence. Enough is enough. Congress is
Pelosi held a briefing on gun violence. They urged Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to bring up a housepast background check bill. This briefing is just over half an [indiscernible conversation] hour. Here we go. Senator schumer welcome. Hi. Great. Ok, lets get started. Im very proud to be joined by, of course, my friend and colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative escobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson. Too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport today. A gentleman came over to me and said thank you for what youre doing, i lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odesza, to say hing about the daily lives
Colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative escobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson, for which shares a gun Violence Convention task force. We are here today for one simple reason, too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport today. A gentleman came over to me and i didnt know who he was. He said, thank you for what you are doing. I lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odessa, to say nothing of the hundreds of lives lost my daily gun violence throughout america had enough is enough. Congress is returning to session. Our first order of business in the senate should be to pass the housepassed legislation backgroun
Veterans issues and how lawmakers are working to improve Veterans Affairs programs. The event was hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I amng toi skip a set of am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. Let me begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recently a district that runs recently elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange Coun