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The gun violence epidemic – more than 100,000 injured or killed by gunfire each year – is a public health crisis that requires leaders of Congress to act on commonsense solutions to end this madness.

House Democrats are demanding that the Republican Congress take action to protect America’s communities and pass commonsense gun violence legislation.

Good morning. Yesterday, our nation witnessed yet another act of unfathomable violence. The shooting in San Bernardino tears at the hearts of all Americans.

“Mr. Speaker, I come to the Floor today to mark World AIDS Day, and I do so in great pride in following my colleague, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, who spoke on the Floor about the 60th anniversary of what happened in Montgomery.”

I come to the floor in a very prayerful way today because we are all horrified at what happened in Paris, what happened in Beirut, what happened to the Russian airliner to name a few recent incidents.

Speaker Ryan is offering up the same disingenuous arguments as Speaker Boehner because nothing has changed: radical, anti-immigrant Members of the House GOP still control the gavel.

The Republican Majority Leader admitted that the Benghazi Select Committee is a taxpayer-funded political smear campaign. So too have Members of the House Republican Conference.

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released the budget review showing that the deficit fell to $435 billion in fiscal year 2015, a $48 billion reduction from the year before.

“A lot of people look at us as being dysfunctional and ineffective.” – House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

“Good morning, everyone. We just had two votes, so we are behind schedule. And speaking of schedule – last night, just under the wire, [in] Congress, the House voted to keep government open. That’s the good news.”