Good morning. , i am the steny hoyer majority leader of the house of representatives and the them aquatic leader in the house of representatives. We have been out of congress for just a few days on summer recess. During that time, we have confronted great tragedy. Sadly, continuing tragedy. How Many Americans will lose their lives for their loved ones . Beforeant gun violence the senate, state Senate Takes Action . Than 9000s year, more , haveans, in seven months been killed by gun violence. Including those killed in more shootings this year in america. Paso andks in el dayton and gilroy, california, and the violence all within about seven days of one another, more than in the neighborhood of 50 americans lost their lives to gun violence. R lives to gun violence. Some five months ago, on february 27, 2019, the house of representatives passed a bill, hr8, a bill that is supported by over 95 of americans. It passed the house of representatives and was sent to the United States senate, wh
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Intelligence discusses his book. Festival, liveok saturday, august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. House democrats, including therity leader briefed majority on hr eight, a gun background check bill. The measure passed the house and is waiting action in the senate. This runs about 45 minutes. Good morning. My name is steny hoyer. Im the majority leader of the house of representatives. We have been out for just a few days on summer recess. During that time it, we have confronted great tragedy. Sadly, continuing tragedy. How may americans will lose their lives or their loved ones to ramp it gun violence before the United States Senate Takes Action . So far this year, more than 9000 americans thats in seven months have been killed by gun violence. That includes those killed and more than 250 Mass Shootings. Mass shootings this year in america. The attacks in el paso and dayton and gilroy, california and the violence all within about seven days of one another, of 50han the
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Eastern and northern borders. Cyber, Electronic Warfare grand and control, Logistics Engineers and other capabilities along ukraines borders, putting russia in a position to move quickly if Vladimir Putin wants to. Joining me is Erin Mclaughlin in kyiv, and Courtney Kube at the pentagon. This is not the totality the pentagon had at its disposal but they are moving them, and there was a moment in the News Conference today where they talked about how they would protect the pentagon, protect u. S. Nato allies. You mentioned that caught your attention during the last pentagon briefing. What did you make of that today . Right. Theres two groups of troops that would be moved here. The 3,000 we heard about today, 2,000 from the United States and 1,000 already there in europe. Its important to point out, the u. S. Military has between 75 and 8,500 troops to move, and this is the u. S. Moving these troops into poland, romania and germany at the request of those governments, so to go in and try