ms. hogg, i want to take a minute before i ask my question to show a video that march on our lives put out about active shooter drills in schools and the reality of what kids are going through today. for context, this is a real student and was not scripted. so let us play the video, please. >> good morning. welcome to this team building event. today we're going to be learning what to do in the event of an active shooter. we're going to bring in a special guest. she's actually an expert on this and she's going to be leading our team building event. this is kaleigh. >> if there was an active shooter, you would all be dead. when you talk out loud, the shooter can tell where you are and where you're hiding. sometimes we play the game who can stay quietest the longest so we all remember. you can try and protect your friends by pushing the tables and chairs against the doors. you also have to put a piece of paper over the door window so they can't see in. you can't cry. it gives away your position a

ms. hogghank you so much for joining us here today and hearing your experience. thank you for your leadership. you your brother, and your fellow advocates are incredible inspiration to me. i also applaud much of our lives peace plan for safer america. which makes the number of recommendations to help ensure our communities are safe from gun violence when i reviewed your plan i was especially glad to see that it includes expanding background checks and dedicating annual funding for gun violence prevention research proposals i'm proud house has passed this year. these are just the first in a series of necessary steps. though ms. hogg in your testimony you encourage investments in mental health resource in schools. can you tell us more about why these investments are so important to students like you? >>. >> thank you for that. i feel hyped up. i'm going to reiterate somethings i said before. >> we need nonaggressive pro action measures because when we put in these measures by that i mean securit

ms. hogg >> thank you all for allowing me the opportunity to give a student's perspective on school scoot security. my name is lauren hogg. i am a cofounder of march our lives as you just work. i am a junior in high school. i'm simply a concerned student who just wants to survive high school both metaphorically and literally. i hope this testimony is an efforts to protect students from all zip codes in all races and going through what myself and my classmates have in the wake of school shooting. i want to start my testimony by saying that i am honored to be here, i would not be here if not for the horrendous events that took place on february 14th, 2018, at my high school marjorie stoneman douglas. thirty-four of my classmates and my friends and my teachers and coaches were injured and 17 of them fatally shot with an ar 15 in our hallway. additionally although i am here today using my own experience of evidence against the military of schools. i am here not to thanks for your sympathy. i am he

ms. hogg. >> chairman thompson, ranking member king, ranking member rogers and members of the subcommittee, thank you all for allowing me the opportunity to give a student's perspective on school security. my name is lauren hogg and i'm a co-founder of march for our lives as you just heard. a junior in high school. i'm a concerned student who wants to survive high school, both metaphorically and literally. i hope that this testimony aids in your efforts to protect students from all zip codes and races from going through what myself and my class mates have in the wake of a school shooting. i want to preface my testimony by saying that although i'm honored to be here today, i would not be here if not for the horrendous events that took place on february 14th, 2018, at my high school, marjorie stoneman douglas. 34 of my class mates, my friends, and my teachers and coaches were injured. 17 of them fatally shot with an ar-15 in our hallway. additionally, although i'm here today using my own experie