NPC Newsmaker Program: Rep. Elijah Cummings to Present "Reality Check on Congressional Gun Legislation"

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Mar 28, 2013, 11:34 ET

WHEN: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: National Press Building, NPC-Zenger Room, 529 14th St. NW, WDC, 20045

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) will present a National Press Club Newsmaker, "A Reality Check on Congressional Gun Legislation," at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 2, in the Zenger Room. The National Press Club is located at 14^th and F Streets NW, and the Zenger Room is on the 13^th Floor.

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Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and former Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, is a prime sponsor of bipartisan legislation on gun trafficking legislation, which now has 100 cosponsors. Cummings takes the gun safety issue personally – his 20-year-old nephew was murdered by gunshot in a random act of violence.

Despite projections of prompt congressional action after the December 2012 massacre of 26 people in Newton, CT, neither chamber has moved to final passage. Cummings will discuss the state of congressional action and substance of the gun trafficking legislation as well as other pending bills.

Cummings represents Maryland's 7^thdistrict including Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County.

SOURCE National Press Club