The Senate is set to take up gun-control legislation today after voting to begin debate. The proceedings follow a week of Capitol Hill lobbying by family members of victims of the shooting massacre at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary. On Saturday, Newtown mother Francine Wheeler, who lost her six-year-old son, Ben, delivered President Obama’s weekly address.

Francine Wheeler: “I’ve heard people say that the tidal wave of anguish our country felt on 12/14 has receded. But not for us. To us, it feels as if it happened just yesterday. And in the four months since we lost our loved ones, thousands of other Americans have died at the end of a gun. Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief. Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy.”