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Washington, DC – A coalition of U.S. House members today introduced H.R. 1217, the bipartisan King-Thompson background check legislation, officially known as the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2015. The bill, authored by U.S. Reps.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to expand gun control laws and require background checks for all commercial gun sales.
“Now is the time to come together and be responsible. Democrats, Republicans, everyone,” she said. “We must never stop fighting. Fight! Fight! Fight!"
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced a gun control bill Wednesday, nearly two years after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a measure that would have closed the federal loophole in the background checks system.
Republican gun reformers aren't expecting any support from leadership on legislation to expand background checks for all commercial gun sales reintroduced in the House on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today introduced H. RES. 137, a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives honoring March as Women’s History Month. The origins of Women’s History Month begin in Thompson’s district.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to help kick-start a longshot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all commercial firearms sales.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will join Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to announce the reintroduction of Thompson’s bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, a measure that failed to get a vote in the House last year.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson’s legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States.
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