international brotherhood of teamsters, the good men and women of the teamsters' union under president jim hoffma find out -- you can find out more about their good work at their website, teamster.org and we thank them for their support and here on capitol hill. it's quiet on capitol hill because the senate and the house are out on another 10-daybreak. but she is not. she is hard at work during this break already here on a monday morning. congress woman eleanor homes norton in the studio with us. >> thank you bill. >> thank you very much. we have been talking to michael tomasky as a friend of bill we were talking before the break about the good safety leanlylation that got shot down if i could use that word. >> senators joe mancion saying he is not talking about running away from it. maybe the city of washington, d.c. knows about gun violence. this is not something we should walk away from? d.c. knows the nra. but for the nra dc would now have a vote in the house of representatives. we were able to get when the democrats were in power. the house, passed amendment that with eliminate all of the gu