Just in time for another shooting tragedy, the U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a bill that Republicans have framed as a way to treat the types of mental illnesses often linked to mass killings.

While Democrats have insisted that gun violence demands gun control, they did not object to the boosts in funding for mental health programs that the bill authored by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., provides. The bill passed 422-2.

"Our mental health system in this country is a failure, and this is one of those times when we're not gathered for a moment of silence, but a time of action," Murphy said Wednesday. "We're here, finally, to speak up for the last, the lost, the least and the lonely. That is those that suffer from mental illness."

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