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The Democrats are telling Moscow Mitch to put their bills on his floor, comrade. Speaker Pelosi Remarks at Press Event Calling on GOP ... NOVEMBER 20, 2019 PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Mike Thompson and other House Democrats for a press event calling on the Republican Senate to pass bipartisan background checks legislation, which the House passed 266 days ago. Below are the Speaker’s remarks: Speaker Pelosi. Good morning, everyone. Here we are: 266 days since the House of Representatives passed our bills, H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112, responsible, commonsense gun violence prevention legislation; an expansion of the background check legislation. We’re going to take this poster over to Leader McConnell. He keeps saying we’re not doing anything over here but impeachment. No. We have 275 bills on his desk right now that were bipartisan when they passed the House of Representatives. Nearly 300 bills, bipartisan, on his desk. Many more bills passed, but of those that are bipartisan. So, he has not been – he has called himself the ‘Grim Reaper.’ Well, he apparently is that in more ways than one, because in the 266 days since we sent this bill, about 25,000 people have died from gun violence in our country, 47 percent of them teenagers or children younger than that. We want him to give us a vote