"Reject this Giant Step Backward that will Produce More Gun Violence"

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Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, spoke out on the House Floor against gun violence. He voted "no" on House Joint Resolution 40, which would overturn an existing Social Security Administration (SSA) rule that requires submission of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). House Joint Resolution 40 would weaken the firearms background check system by excluding those with the most severe and incapacitating forms of impairment. Some Americans who have a mental impairment that is so significant, either from birth or contracting it thereafter, that taxpayers provide them support through the Social Security Disability System. They're declared to be disabled. And within that group, there is a much smaller group whose disability is so severe that they can't handle their own affairs. Remarking on the effect of this resolution, Rep. Doggett said:

"They can't receive a check in their hands -- you have to give it to someone else -- but it's okay to put a gun in their hands. And that's what this proposal does."

"The American people and the families that are being hurt day after day by gun violence -- they deserve some due process too. Let's uphold this rule and reject this step backward, this giant step backward, that will only produce more gun violence and more families torn asunder."

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