passions have cooled before taking any action to reduce gun violence in america. well, madam president, the grim reality is this, it is no longer would be to wait months or weeks or even days after a mass shooting for passions to cool. the shootings just keep happening. so far this year we ve seen 246 mass shootings and 157 days, more than one mass shooting every day. just this past weekend a string of 11 mass shootings left at least 15 people dead and more than 60 others wounded in tennessee, pennsylvania, south carolina, arizona, texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. madam president, no other developed nation on earth has even a fraction of the mass shootings we have in the united states. president lincoln once said famously, we cannot escape history. this senate cannot escape its responsibility to do something. we cannot allow ourselves to grow numb and resign to this mass murder. negotiations are underway on a bipartisan basis to help reduce gun violence in america. i w
president biden s nominees, including kenneth weinstein and president bush s former advisory for the homeland security department. and also expands the bill for va benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances. the senate live now on c-span2. you are our source of hope and salvation, so why should we be afraid? you have been our fortress when evil seemed to be winning, so why should we tremble? keep us fearless even when surrounded by predatory evil. even when there is violence within our nation, keep us confidence that your purposes will prevail. today, use our lawmakers as instruments of your peace. hear this prayer, mighty god, for your faithfulness continues to sustain us. we pray in your our redeemer s name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
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Hearing. It is just over three hours. Hit the gavel. Give them some peace. Back in your cages. Take this free pass thing. The hearing will come to order. Thank you all for coming. Heres the order of the day. S the order of the day. Ill give a brief Opening Statement along with senator whitehouse and well have senator grassley and feinstein follow us in questioning, and it will be sevenminute rounds initially and try to a second round of five minutes. To both of the witnesses, thank you for coming. Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped em