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Huffington Post: House Democrats Want a New Committee, too. On Gun Violence.

Press Release

Date: Oct. 8, 2015
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Guns

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Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) introduced a resolution Thursday to create a select committee to study the causes of mass shootings, ways to improve the federal background checks system, connections between access to firearms and people with mental illness, and links between firearms and suicide. It would issue a final report and recommendations, including legislative proposals, within 60 days of the committee being created.

"This House Majority has created committees to bully Planned Parenthood and harass a presidential candidate, all the while allowing mass gun violence to go unchecked and unexamined on their watch," Thompson said in a statement.

"There have been nearly 280 mass shootings since Newtown and Congress has done nothing. No votes have been cast. No bills have been debated. No proposals have even been considered," he said. "This Select Committee can change that."

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