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First victims being named as US president calls for action on gun laws

United States Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy delivers an impassioned speech on the Senate floor just hours after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, in south-west Texas.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s lawmakers said they were heartbroken Tuesday at the news of a deadly Texas elementary school shooting that is hauntingly familiar to the elementary school massacre that took 26 lives in Newtown 10 years ago.

Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook’s district, called ‘bullshit’ on Republicans for focusing on mental health not guns

WASHINGTON — Steven Dettelbach starts the most public part of his effort to become only the second person to successfully run the Senate confirmation gantlet to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a political high-wire act at a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A gunman shot and killed 14 kids and one teacher at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

Lawmakers and gun control groups lead calls to to stop the carnage: ‘it is our choice to let it continue’

Connecticut U.S. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook

‘Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this?’

"I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues"

WASHINGTON — One of Eric Garcetti’s top advocates in the Senate said the White House needs to make a decision on the future of the Los Angeles mayor’s bid to be ambassador to India within weeks, suggesting the embattled nomination has lingered in a state of limbo too long.