Congresswoman Doris Matsui has represented the city of Sacramento and its surrounding areas since 2005. As a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she serves on the Health and Energy subcommittees and is the Vice Chair on the Communications and Technology subcommittee. She is committed to strengthening Sacramento’s flood protection, ensuring quality, affordable health care for all, promoting a clean energy economy, and creating a vibrant region where families can live, work, and play.
Nearly 40,000 lives are claimed by gun violence in the United States every year. The Congresswoman believes it is past time that we act together to prevent gun violence from taking the lives of more victims. Congresswoman Matsui has advocated for common sense solutions like strengthening background checks, increasing gun safety research, promoting responsible gun ownership, and keeping guns out of the hands of those who would do harm to themselves and others. She has repeatedly stood with House Democrats in pushing for gun safety measures to address the epidemic of gun violence in the United states. She has cosponsored legislation to close the “gun show loophole” by requiring background checks on all handgun sales, ban high capacity ammunition magazines, prohibit individuals who have been convicted of a hate crime from buying or possessing guns, and increase our federal investment in a national background check infrastructure.
The Congresswoman also strongly believes that to tackle the crippling effects of gun violence on our communities, we need to research it as a public health epidemic. The Congresswoman supported the establishment of a Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis’ Sacramento campus, which supports efforts to generate new scientific evidence for more effective firearm violence prevention policies and programs. Congresswoman Matsui also cosponsored legislation that would 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.
Congresswoman Matsui is a member of the House Democratic Caucus Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which is led by Congressman Mike Thompson.
Congresswoman Matsui cosponsors:
H. Res. 275 - Condemning the horrific shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 16, 2021, and reaffirming the House of Representatives commitment to combating hate, bigotry, and violence against he Asian-American and Pacific Islander community
H.Res. 746 - Original National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Resolution of 2021
H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
H.R.748 - Ethan’s Law
H.R. 350 - Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
H.R. 1808 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2021
H.R. 1843 - COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
H.R. 3480 - Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2021
H.R.3929 - Disarm Hate Act
H.R. 4118 - Break the Cycle of Violence Act