Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
A House resolution expressing condolences and honoring the memory of the five people killed and those wounded in the February 15, 2019, mass shooting at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois; it names the victims, commends responding police and emergency personnel, notes community support, and characterizes gun violence as an epidemic.
Content is ceremonial and noncontroversial, making House adoption very likely; it contains no fiscal or regulatory burdens.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear and appropriately constructed commemorative resolution: it identifies the event and victims, makes specific formal statements for the House to adopt, and contains the level of execution detail typical for such measures.
Progressives emphasize need for policy responses to gun violence
Progressives emphasize need for policy responses to gun violence
Likely to view the resolution as an important symbolic gesture that honors victims and first responders while noting the broader public-health problem of gun violence.
Supportive of expressions of solidarity but disappointed it contains no concrete policy remedies or funding for prevention and survivor services.
Likely to support the resolution as an appropriate, noncontroversial expression of condolences that honors victims and first responders.
Will view it as a standard, short-form congressional recognition while preferring any follow-up to be pragmatic and evidence-based.
Likely to strongly support the resolution's condolences and the praise for police and first responders, while being attentive to any language that frames gun violence as a political issue.
Because the resolution contains no regulatory proposals, it is unlikely to generate substantive opposition.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Content is ceremonial and noncontroversial, making House adoption very likely; it contains no fiscal or regulatory burdens.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize need for policy responses to gun violence
Content is ceremonial and noncontroversial, making House adoption very likely; it contains no fiscal or regulatory burdens.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear and appropriately constructed commemorative resolution: it identifies the event and victims, makes specific formal statements for the House to adopt, and c…
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