gabby giffords is a person who makes things happen. [applause] gabby has chosen to help inspire, organize, and motivate a nation that is fed up with violence and fed up with congressional inaction, and she has chosen to focus us on coming together and taking concrete steps that will keep families and communities safer. her courage inspires us daily, but i know she is inspired by the courage of those who came before her, those she met today and those hundreds of thousands of americans all across the country who are joining her each and every day, those who are sending checks for $5, $10, that they may need in tough times, to stand shoulder to shoulder with gabby, those who are talking to their friends at the grocery store and at the water cooler and on playgrounds and saying, we can do better, and i am standing with gabby giffords to get it done. i know she is inspired by the courage, by her friend and staffer gabe zimmerman, who ran toward her and toward danger during the terrible shooting in tucson and lost his life trying to help. pre

different path forward because they don't want to go against the mayors against illegal guns and gabby giffords and more. that may give us a path to get a bill on the senate floor. >> they need some of these people to stand up to the nra as it always does has another threatening attack add, attacking for a bill that would have strengthened background checks which seems to be the least that's happening. let's watch the nra add. >> remember this tv add? i'm joe mansion, i approved this add because i'll always defend west virginia. >> as your senator i'll protect the second amendment rights. >> he's working with president obama and new york mayor michael bloomberg. concerned? you should be. tell him to honor his commitment to the second amendment. >> they bully, threaten, spend money, force politicians on the back front and unfortunately, it usually works. >> yeah, but why does it work? the fact is that these guys have become pretty miserable at winning elections. in 2012 the nra spent money in 16 senate seats. you know how many they won? 3. they lost 13 of 16. i would argue more than being with t

this beautiful dimple on his face but it's because he was shot in the face from the man who hurt gabby giffords. background checks are very important. i'm not going to accept some watered-down version just to say we got it done. >> what are you waiting for? [indiscernible] >> we have to have 60 votes. >> are there any signs that republicans are certain to come over on this? you said to focus on the republicans. >> yes. no. [laughter] >> would you say they're at least one republican who is a yes privately right now? with have been doing well more than one republican, a couple. >> do you believe that mayor numbered sectors have been helpful or not helpful in terms of going after the democrats who voted against this bill? >> i spoke with amanda sweet. he and i have been friends for some time. to remind him, just as i have reminded everyone here, to have republicans control the senate is a sure sign we will never ever get anything done. mayor bloomberg is a man of passion. he is fixated on this and i admire him for doing that. and he is going to make some decisions on this. i gave him my input to t

tom hanks, the clintons, gabby giffords, mark kelly came, meryl streep, bette midler, tom jones, whoopioldberg, so on, so on. everybody is raving about this play. >> it feels pretty special because of, again, who the play is about. you know the difference between when you're speaking about someone that you care about and you value as opposed to recommending someone for -- recommending yourself for a job or something. speaking for yourself is hard. i don't know how people do it. but speaking for someone else is like, hey, sam, let me tell you -- you know? so i feel i'm speaking with great purpose. >> let's take a look at you in action here. >> oh, for god's sake. >> i'll tell you what though. if i got turned out over my concealed weapons detail, then i say so be it and sayonara. more guns in people's pockets meant more people dead. there was no compromise to be had. >> pretty prophetic and timely. >> that's from "chicago" or maybe it is from d.c. i've augmented that since then. first of all, it's given much more forcefully because i come to -- ann richards toward the end of her life was

. >> there is some evidence that jar jared loughner, who shot gabby giffords, listened to that song. the band insists the song is about a mosh pit, not murder. but again, with violent video games, do you think that violent musical video and music can have a profound and disturbing effect on people who may themselves be mentally unstable? >> i believe so, especially on the young mind. a young person's mind is very easy to lead a young person's mind into things like that, easy to influence, you know. i can say that from experience. what you see on tv and media and things like that, it can radically affect you if looking at it like this for extended periods of time, it can really affect a young person's mind if it goes unchecked. >> the moment that you decided that you were going to kill your parents, why did you decide that they had to die and what then happened? >> that's a good question. i was at a point in my life where i didn't care about anyone or anything anymore, and i wanted to die. so as i said before, i was thinking these murderous thoughts for a long time. the day that it ha

. >> reporter: former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords. >> be passionate, be courageous, be yourhank you very much. >> reporter: wherein lies the not so subtle cultural shift coles is bringing to "cosmo." >> it brings me energy. for me incredible women. that's what helps me figure out what to put in the pages and to make "cosmo" seem more than just a magazine. >> reporter: but lest you wonder what will become of all that sex that "cosmo" famously celebrates on its cover each month, coles makes no apologies. >> i don't think relationships and love and sex are particularly racy. i think it's sort of essential to a good, healthy lifestyle. >> reporter: i'll come back to that later. >> i'm happy to talk about sex relentlessly. >> reporter: joanna coles seems to revel in riding that juxtaposition between the serious and the rest of the stuff in the magazine. and yes, that means she often has to drag all that exhausting sex business home with her to husband peter godlin. do you ever come home and say, darling -- >> listen, it's the hardest part of my job. i've got 17 pages to get throu

when the president flanked by gabby giffords and newtown families spoke in the rose garden calling itden is now live trying to revive the plan. >> in addition to the fbi, we brought in the justice department overall. we brought in the -- instead we insisted that they sit down, together -- not separately, together and make sure they were all on the same page at to what were the single recommendations that could be made. there is a coherence to this. they have all had significant input in dealing with disasters. so we put them together in one room with more than 100 experts from law enforcement to higher education, from k-12 teachers to first responders, to emergency planners. and we said, all of you come up with what you think are the best practices -- the most concrete recommendations that you can give us that will enable us to teach our prepare or lay out a menu for the school districts and churches. interesting thing is, i think it surprised most people a little bit -- remember eric and i sitting there and we had the faith leaders. the faith leaders not only wanted to talk about mak

and whether or not like you say he should maybe think about donating a portion of his fee to gabby giffords' fund or somebody else's fund to combat gun reform issues in this country. but we're talking about it. >> we're promoting the film. >> i don't want my secretary to pay more taxes than me, pay back. please. contribute to politicians who want to tax reform. >> jim carrey and this film are not alone. look at the bulk of the summer releases they are all -- not movies they're crack-toons and filled with overloaded violence, all of them from brad pitt's movie, his summer, all the summer -- >> the releases. >> garage. >> get the teenage boys. >> make millions, by the way. >> exactly. jim carrey's best role "the majestic". >> didn't see that one. >> that was a good one. >> what was he in? >> did you not see that? >> "dumb and dumber". >> haven't seen that? >> [ inaudible ]. >> "seaside, florida," that's my district. wonderful place. go watch "the majestic" this weekend. >> what else is going on? >> we have edward snowden in the news. paula deen and more and more americans -- >> are they toget

students were killed tragically in newtown, and then the shooting in aurora, and then again, gabby giffords, we saw him at act very angrily. meanwhile, in his hometown of chicago, 5000 murders. this year we are up to 100, mostly blacks killing blacks. we know of one woman who performed at the president's inaugural, one week later was tragically slain as she stood talking to friends, by young thugs. so we do not see the president talking about -- and this is really black genocide. you have had over 44,000 black children killed at the hands of gun violence. that is more than all of the blacks who were lynched before the civil war ended through 1964. this is according to the children's defense fund data. no solutions being offered, and yet, joe talked about student loans. i would argue personal responsibility means the presidential telling students not to take on more debt than they can afford. go to community college, go to state colleges. it is not about the interest- rate doubling. the president expects black americans like you and me and the other young people paying back their debts to pa

this legislation first started when gabby giffords was here in congress and she proposed in 2010 that we fix that problem by taking about $10 million from the office of undersecretary of management at d.h.s. and move it to the border security fencing infrastructure and technology account with the purpose of allowing the ranchers to have access to cell phone service so they could call for help when they are in trouble. that legislation has passed twice and has not passed to become law. this legislation is being brought to the house again for the third time. i appreciate my support from my friend, henry cuellar from laredo, texas. it's commonsense legislation. there are portions of the border that are not secure. and those portions, those dead zones, let's help out the ranchers so they can call for help when they are in trouble. that's what this legislation does. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the chair: the gentleman from texas yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from -- mr. carter: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for