Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
The CDC became a political arm of the gun control movement in the 90's by manipulation of firearms issues through shady research. Congress prohibited the CDC from spending 'any' money on further research and this is an anti-gun effort to reinstitute this untrustworthy approach by allowing taxpayers to fund junk science.
Title: To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.
Subject: Accidents: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Crime prevention: Department of Health and Human Services: Executive agency funding and structure: Firearms and explosives: Health programs administration and funding: Medical research: Research administration and funding: Violent crime: Health
Description: To authorize the appropriation of funds to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. This bill authorizes FY2018-FY2023 appropriations for the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Last Action Date: March 31, 2017
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1832/all-info
Companion Bill: SB834
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57 sponsors: Carolyn Maloney (D); Gregory Meeks (D); Robin Kelly (D); Pramila Jayapal (D); Jackie Speier (D); Jerrold Nadler (D); Barbara Lee (D); Steve Cohen (D); Stephen Lynch (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Alma Adams (D); Julia Brownley (D); Rick Larsen (D); Kathy Castor (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Niki Tsongas (D); Thomas Suozzi (D); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D); Eliot Engel (D); David Cicilline (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Jamie Raskin (D); John Yarmuth (D); Ro Khanna (D); Jimmy Panetta (D); Salud Carbajal (D); Joseph Kennedy (D); Bradley Schneider (D); Diana DeGette (D); Cedric Richmond (D); Adam Schiff (D); Bill Pascrell (D); Jacky Rosen (D); Lisa Rochester (D); C.A. Ruppersberger (D); Timothy Walz (D); Seth Moulton (D); Doris Matsui (D); Suzanne Bonamici (D); Bobby Rush (D); Ed Perlmutter (D); Bill Foster (D); Sheila Jackson-Lee (D); Ruben Kihuen (D); Darren Soto (D); Zoe Lofgren (D); Jerry McNerney (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Terri Sewell (D); Mark DeSaulnier (D); Don Beyer (D); Peter King (R); Susan Davis (D); Brendan Boyle (D); William Keating (D); Emanuel Cleaver (D); Lacy Clay (D)
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 31 2017 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Mar 30 2017 | Introduced in House |
| House | Mar 30 2017 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E415) |
| House | Mar 30 2017 | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Apr 6 2017 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Health
There have not been any votes on this bill