tonight there is certainly plenty of action, and joining us now is congressman jim heinz, democrat of connecticut. >> i think what is most likely to be achieved is the gal vanization of people who realize the way you solve the problem with guns and by the intensity problem you have a relatively small percentage of the american population who cares about this, they write the checks that are single issue voters, a lot of people are saying if we're going to pass legislation and this is what we're asking for tonight that is supported by 90% of the american back, universal background checks, no fly, no buy, we're going to need to generate enthusiasm. none of us are under the impression that the speaker is going to cave to what we want him to do, but what wear doing, changing the conversation out there and at the end of the day public sentiment is everything. >> so when you're saying you're changing the conversation do you see this primarily as activism to effect the people watching in the rest of the country and not what happens actually inside the house? >> that's what i mean. it's going

jim heinz said this about the moment of silence the house observed for the victims of the orlando massacre. >> as you bow your head and think of what you say to your god, when you ask what you did to slow the slaughter of innocence, there will be surveillance. >> he represents the neighboring district, where children were massacred in the sandy hook elementary school, using a similar assault rifle that killed 49 people in orlando. congress decided to do nothing after the sandy hook massacre, today at 11:21 a.m., the junior senator from connecticut, chris murphy, rose, interrupted the pending business on the senate floor and said this. >> the failure of this body to do anything -- anything at all, in the face of that continued slaughter isn't just painful to us, it is unconsconable. how hard it is to look in the eyes of the families of those killed in sandy hook and tell them that almost four years later, we have done nothing -- nothing at all. >> i shutter to think what it will be like for senator nel sop, four years from now, to talk to the parents of those that were killed this weekend i