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Robin Kelly, D-Ill., a driving force behind the Democrats’ dramatic congressional sit-in calling for a gun control vote, said she and her Illinois colleagues are stepping up the momentum this week. ‘We’re not going to let this die,’ Kelly told POLITICO Illinois Sunday. The Illinois delegation is planning a Wednesday morning press conference at Federal Plaza in Chicago to call on the public to put pressure on elected officials to vote on gun reform when Congress returns to Washington ...

House committees will scrutinize the federal government’s offensive and defensive cyber capabilities in separate hearings this week. A House Oversight subcommittee will hold a field hearing in Chicago today to solicit opinions on cybersecurity information sharing and more from the private sector. Witnesses include the executive director of the cyber resilience organization ChicagoFIRST and the CTO of Chicago-area hospital system Advocate Health Care.

The tears came suddenly Tuesday in the middle of U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly’s speech, catching both her and her audience by surprise.

She was reading a passage about gun violence prevention and the need for more gun control laws — a topic on which she has probably spoken nearly every day since launching her first campaign for Congress in 2013.
“I’m so relentless on this issue because …” she began.

But this time the words caught in Kelly’s throat and the tears streamed down her face.

Ten seconds passed before she murmured, “It’s been a rough week.”