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Biden using national address to urge Congress to act on guns

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., left, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, confer as the House Judiciary Committee holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Joe Biden speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Biden will speak Thursday night on the recent spate of mass shootings. The White House says he'll talk about his plans to press Congress on acting “to pass commonsense laws to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is taking lives every day.” (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden using national address to urge Congress to act on guns