h. r. 5965, the house version of the expanded background check that organization is working so hard, representative thompson on behalf of 1 million members and supporters and all of the victims and families you see here today and across the country we appreciate all of your leadership. >> thank you very much for what you do. i love seeing you here. i wish we didn't, but you are such an important voice. thank you for your public service and your courage to come out and do this. it takes a big person to be willing to stand up and speak out on this issue and nancy pelosi, thank you, she has been absolutely fantastic and you heard me say it before it it was nancy pelosi -- if it was the speaker of this bill would have already been signed into law and for all the families. you call yourselves survivors, victims. you are absolutely fantastic. the courage that you show is all-important. we hear too often the numbers, 12,000 people killed by someone with a firearm since sandy hook. we are the 30 plus people they killed by someone like a firearm. the fact of the matter is those numbers stand for the people