The issue focused on the House's version of a bill to reduce gun violence, which had been passed by the Senate in May.

A former federal prosecutor and current law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Harman has called for new laws and rules to keep guns out of the hands of people with criminal records, those who are mentally ill or have serious mental illness, and people with drug problems.

"It is my position that we need to do more to protect our children from these dangerous