在一份声明中帕克兰枪击案三周年纪念拜登总统呼吁国会就枪支管制改革采取行动。

“本届政府不会等待下一次大规模枪击事件来响应这一呼吁。我们将采取行动，结束枪支暴力的流行，让我们的学校和社区更加安全。拜登在声明中说:“今天，我呼吁国会颁布常识性的枪支法律改革，包括要求对所有枪支销售进行背景调查，禁止攻击性武器和高容量杂志，并取消故意将战争武器放在我们街道上的枪支制造商的豁免权。”“为了所有失去的人，也为了所有留下来悲伤的人，我们应该做出改变。现在是采取行动的时候了。”

 

 

杰拉尔德·赫伯特/美联社档案

玛格丽·纽康(右)安慰着她14岁的女儿哈利·纽康，她是马乔里·斯通的学生

拜登政府的高级成员几乎在上周会见了枪支控制倡导团体，讨论其他“常识性枪支法律改革”，但迄今为止，拜登在政府早期的任何行政行动中都没有在国会讨论这个问题。

拜登在导致17人丧生的枪击事件三周年之际承认帕克兰家庭的痛苦，但也从整体上解决了这个问题，并指出枪支暴力对有色人种社区的不成比例的影响。

“在我们整个国家，父母、配偶、子女、兄弟姐妹和朋友都知道因枪支暴力而失去亲人的痛苦。在这个损失惨重的季节，去年美国凶杀案的历史性增长，包括对我们城市黑人和棕色人种造成不成比例毁灭性打击的枪支暴力，增加了我们餐桌上的空座位数量。今天，当我们和帕克兰社区一起哀悼时，我们为所有因枪支暴力而失去亲人的人哀悼，”声明中写道。

周六参议院弹劾投票(7名共和党人投票有罪，特朗普无罪释放)后，拜登账户上发布的第一条推特强调了他周五在椭圆形办公室与市长和州长就美国救援计划举行的两党会议。

“美国的州长和市长们理解反对新冠肺炎的斗争和另一项救济法案的紧迫性。昨天，我会见了他们中的一个两党小组，讨论了美国救援计划以及我们如何共同努力应对我们面临的危机，”POTUS账户在推特上发布了一张会议照片。

白宫本周不断回避弹劾问题，称政府的重点是帮助在疫情中挣扎的美国人。

据多位接近幕后审议的消息人士透露，参议院的拜登盟友在周六下午的审议期间告诉众议院弹劾经理，他们反对传唤证人，这清楚地表明，传唤证人将会偏离总统的议程，并有可能破坏新冠肺炎的纾困。

 

 

美国联合通讯社(Associated Press)

参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔和其他共和党参议员及工作人员就该法案进行了讨论

一名白宫官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，白宫没有参与关于传唤证人或达成协议的讨论。

参议院周六以55票对45票听取证人的证词，但随后特朗普法律团队和众议院弹劾经理达成协议，承认众议员海梅·埃雷拉·比尤特勒(Jaime Herrera Beutler)的书面证词。，成为证据而不要求进一步的证人。

 

 

路透社美国参议院电视台

美国参议院以55票对45票在弹劾前总统唐纳德的审判中传唤证人

十名投票弹劾特朗普的众议院共和党人之一埃雷拉·比尤特勒(Herrera Beutler)周五在推特上发表声明，重申她在与众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡就特朗普参与国会大厦围攻进行的谈话中发表的评论。

在Herrera Beutler的声明中，她重申了她早些时候向华盛顿报纸《每日新闻》发表的声明，即麦卡锡在1月6日暴徒袭击国会大厦时与特朗普交谈，但特朗普拒绝阻止他们。

In a statement marking the 3 year anniversary of the Parkland Shooting, President Biden is calling on Congress to take action on gun control reform.

"This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets," Biden said in the statement. "We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now."

Senior members of the Biden administration met with gun control advocacy groups virtually last week to discuss other "commonsense gun law reforms," but to date, Biden has not addressed the issue in Congress on in any of his executive actions in the early days of his administration.

Biden acknowledged the pain of the Parkland families on the 3rd anniversary of the shooting that claimed the lives of 17, but also addressed the issue as a whole, and noted the disproportionate impact of gun violence on communities of color.

"All across our nation, parents, spouses, children, siblings, and friends have known the pain of losing a loved one to gun violence. And in this season of so much loss, last year’s historic increase in homicides across America, including the gun violence disproportionately devastating Black and Brown individuals in our cities, has added to the number of empty seats at our kitchen tables. Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence," the statement read.

Following the Senate impeachment vote Saturday -- in which seven Republicans voted guilty, and Trump was acquitted -- the first tweet posted to Biden's account highlighted his bipartisan meeting Friday with mayors and governors in the Oval Office on the American Rescue plan.

"America’s governors and mayors understand the fight against COVID-19 and the urgency of another relief bill. Yesterday, I met with a bipartisan group of them to discuss the American Rescue Plan and how we can work together to meet the crises we face," the POTUS account tweeted with a photo of the meeting.

The White House continuously dodged questions on impeachment this week, saying the administration’s focus was on helping Americans struggling amid the pandemic.

Biden allies in the Senate told House impeachment managers during their deliberation Saturday afternoon that they opposed calling witnesses, making it clear that calling witnesses would take away from the president’s agenda and had the potential to derail COVID-19 relief, according to multiple sources close to the deliberations behind the scenes.

A White House official told ABC News that the White House was not involved with discussions over calling witnesses or the deal that was made.

The Senate Saturday voted 55-45 to hear from witnesses, but then the Trump legal team and House impeachment managers came to the agreement to admit the written testimony of Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., into evidence and not request further witnesses.

Herrera Beutler, one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach, tweeted a statement Friday reiterating comments she made about a talk she had with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy regarding Trump's involvement in the Capitol siege.

In Herrera Beutler's statement, she reiterated her claims -- which she made earlier to Washington newspaper The Daily News -- that McCarthy spoke to Trump as rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, but Trump refused to stop them.