WASHINGTON — Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Kansas City, introduced a bill Thursday that would suspend pay for members of Congress every time there is a mass shooting.
His bill comes in the immediate aftermath of two mass shootings this month — one in Buffalo, New York, where a racist gunman killed 10 people and one in Texas where an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in the last week of classes before summer vacation.
Cleaver, who is a United Methodist pastor, said he proposed the bill because he is tired of Congress neglecting to take action in the aftermath of another mass shooting.
