U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Lansing) and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) will reintroduce legislation that would fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand and address the nation’s ongoing gun violence epidemic. The Gun Violence Prevention Research Act would authorize $50 million each fiscal year over the next five years to boost the CDC’s firearms safety and gun violence prevention research.
Slotkin and Markey will unveil the legislation at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday alongside Dylan Morris and Devin Woodruff, students at Oxford High School and MSU, respectively, who both survived the two mass school shootings that occurred in Michigan in the last year and a half.
The press conference will begin at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, and livestreamed at Facebook.com/RepElissaSlotkin.
