And my heart goes out to the whole Kirk family. We have seen this spike in political violence. We saw it in Minnesota. We saw it in Butler, Pennsylvania. It's got to stop. It's leading the country down a very dangerous path. But I was just horrified to see what happened. And I think that shooting and Kirk's death just hangs like a pall over this entire capital. What could Congress do? (00:39–00:43)
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