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Watching the Democrats’ sit-in on the House floor last week filled Mandy Pifer with pride — and the conviction that Congress will act on tougher gun violence laws.
Pifer, whose boyfriend, Shannon Johnson, was killed in the San Bernardino shooting Dec. 2, had the chance to offer her encouragement in person Wednesday at a roundtable discussion on advancing gun control hosted by Southern California House members at Los Angeles City Hall.
Fresh from last week’s sit-in on the floor of Congress, seven U.S. representatives brought their call for new gun control laws on Wednesday to the front door of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which treats many victims of gun violence.
“No more moments of silence,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said. “No more silence.”
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Building on a sit-in staged by House Democrats in the nation’s capitol last week, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of the Bay Area congressional delegation on Wednesday gathered in San Francisco to call for House Republicans to allow a vote on gun control bills.
SAN FRANCISCO >> Less than a week after Democrats ended their day-long sit-in protest on the House floor over gun control laws, government officials once again rallied together Wednesday to protest Republican inaction.
Led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Solano), a handful of congressmen and women joined Bay Area law enforcement officers, community leaders and survivors of gun violence in a show of solidarity in the plaza outside of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
Arnulfo Solorio believes that learning English helped advance his farmworker career, and his dream of seeing fellow farmworkers achieve the same is being realized through the Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation, which held its first farmworker recognition and donor appreciation luncheon Tuesday.
“My dream is that farmworkers can speak, read and write English. That they have basic math skills. That they acquire leadership skills. That they acquire general viticulture skills, and have access to professional development,” Solorio told attendees at the luncheon held at Solage Calistoga.
A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in on the House floor, they're taking their message to the people and holding dozens of events Wednesday throughout the country as part of a national day of action against gun violence.
House Democrats are coalescing around a recess strategy to keep pressure on Republicans to hold a gun control vote when they return, as lawmakers head back to their districts for the July Fourth break.
The organizers of the daylong “sit-in” protest, which effectively shut down the House earlier this week, are urging Democrats to participate in a “national day of action” on June 29. The events across the country are intended to highlight the lack of House action to address what they call the “epidemic of gun violence.”
Three House Republicans and one Democrat announced Friday the introduction of legislation to prevent individuals on certain terrorist watch lists from purchasing a gun but with an appeals process for denials.
The bill, identical to a proposal Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins offered in the upper chamber , is part of a bipartisan, bicameral attempt to find a legislative compromise on restricting terrorists' access to guns following the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, this month that left 49 people dead and 53 others injured.
WASHINGTON - California winemakers have now enlisted lawmakers and federal regulators in their latest effort to stop the dilution of some vintage names.
Squeezed by the state’s large congressional delegation, regulators are proposing to restrict further the use of certain crucial words on wine labels. The move would stop out-of-state wine producers from spuriously identifying their wine as coming from a designated California region.
Washington, D.C. >> In an historic 26-hour sit-in on the House floor that ended Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, joined House Democrats in protesting the refusal of Republican leadership to allow a vote on bipartisan legislation to address gun violence.
During the sit-in, House Republicans recessed the House of Representatives without voting on legislation that would help keep guns out of dangerous hands.