Jared Polis

Mr. POLIS

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott) for the purpose of an important and timely unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) for the purpose of a critical and timely unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Butterfield) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent that would save lives and prevent convicted felons from acquiring weapons.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark) for the purpose of a timely, important, and critical unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Titus) for a unanimous consent request that would prevent terrorists from assembling arsenals that they would use to cause harm to our fellow Americans.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I point out, on my own time, that granting this request does not take away from considering the other two underlying bills. They, too, will be considered, but it simply means that these additional two bills to reduce gun violence, preventing terrorists from assembling arsenals legally in our own country, and making sure that convicted felons can't legally acquire firearms, are common sense. I think they would pass this House fairly overwhelmingly. We are simply saying, in addition to the bills that are already being considered--which some of us may personally be opposed to in the case of NDAA, but we are not standing in the way of those. We are simply allowing for the consideration of these additional bills. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request only, I yield to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. Esty).

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent request that would save lives.

Mr. POLIS. Very well. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter) who has a very important unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I want to be clear that the various speakers have not embellished to this point; is that correct?

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rush) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, in a just-breaking Politico article, it says that House leader infighting has forced GOP leaders to indefinitely postpone a vote on an antiterrorism package. You know, I don't know who is going to tell the terrorists that we are postponing a vote on an antiterrorism package. I would hope that the Republicans would join us Democrats in trying to prevent terrorists from quietly assembling arsenals of explosives and guns and weapons to conduct coordinated attacks on the people of our country--that is what we are hoping to do--and break through this Republican obstructionism on this issue. Hopefully, there will be a new, breaking story based on the acceptance of a unanimous consent request that is forthcoming from my colleague from Ohio. I yield to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark) for a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. The Chair has stated the last several times that the unanimous consent requests cannot be received. Is it that it cannot be accepted or that it is willfully not accepted by the gentleman from Alabama?

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Al Green) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, a point of parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent request to combat the terrorist threat to our country.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, that strikes close to home, I would say to Mrs. Davis. That is the name of my daughter as well, Cora; so that is particularly emotional to me as a father. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I was truly hoping that the motion by Ms. Titus would be accepted because, frankly, Ms. Titus' unanimous consent request would have saved lives, prevented convicted felons from acquiring firearms and would have prevented people on the terrorist watch list from silently assembling arsenals for them to commit terrorist acts in our country. While I am disappointed that Ms. Titus' unanimous consent request was rejected out of hand, I yield to--and I am hopeful that the gentleman from Alabama will accept--the gentleman from California (Mr. Thompson) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) for the purpose of a very important unanimous consent request that will save lives.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Serrano) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee) for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.