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April 25, 2023

Biden and Harris Welcome "Tennessee Three" to White House to Call for Gun Controls
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President Biden on Monday welcomed Tennessee Democratic Representatives
Justin Pearson, Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson to the White House for a
discussion on gun reform. The lawmakers became known as the "Tennessee
Three" after facing Republican-led expulsion votes from the state
Legislature for supporting recent student protests calling for gun
control after six people, including three 9-year-old students, were
killed in a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school in March.
Pearson and Jones, who were the only two formally expelled, were
unanimously reappointed to the Tennessee House of Representatives by
local officials in Memphis and Nashville earlier this month. This is
Jones speaking Monday from the Rose Garden.

Rep. Justin Jones: "We lifted this issue above the partisan divide, that
this is not left or right, but we talked to the president about how this
is a moral issue, an issue of conscience, an issue in the South, where
we are trying to build a multiracial democracy and challenge these
extreme forces that rather than passing an assault weapons ban, they
assaulted our democracy, as we saw when we were expelled from the state
Legislature."



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