CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sen. Sherrod Brown wants U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call for an emergency vote during Congress’s August recess to try and pass a bipartisan firearms background check bill in the wake of two mass shooting in less than 24 hours, including one in Dayton.

Brown made his plea to McConnell on CNN’s “State of the Union” program Sunday morning. He came onto the program shortly after host Jake Tapper noted that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, declined to appear.

Brown, a Democrat from Cleveland, said that while he is saddened by the wave of deadly violence across the U.S. in less than a 24-hour span, he is also angered that “Congress still doesn’t do its job.”

In February, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would expand background checks for gun sales, including purchases at gun shows and over the Internet. The bill has not been taken up for a vote by the Senate.

Brown called on McConnell to call for an emergency Monday vote on the House bill several times during his appearance.

“I hope that Sen. McConnell would bring the Senate back tomorrow and pass the background check bill and send it to the president. The president must sign it, period,” Brown said. “We could pass the background check bill in an afternoon, and people could get back on a plane and go back to their homes and their children and grandchildren and whatever they’re doing in August in the evening. We could do it that fast.”

Brown also expressed his hopes that President Donald Trump will put an end to his “divisive rhetoric that he has employed, increasingly,” particularly in recent weeks.

Referring to President Obama’s actions following the Sandy Hook and Charleston mass shooting, as well as President Bush’s reaction after the 9/11 attacks, Brown said he wishes that Trump “would show the leadership of either of his predecessors and stop the racist, divisive talk and start the healing process.”

On Saturday, 20 people were killed and dozens more were hurt in El Paso, Texas when a gunman opened fire at a busy shopping plaza. A 21-year-old man from the Dallas area was taken into custody, and law enforcement officials are investigating the killings as an act of domestic terror.

About 13 hours later, a man wearing body armor began shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District – an area filled with bars and other entertainment venues. Nine people were killed by the gunman before he was shot dead by police officers.

Ohio law enforcement officials have not said how the gunman obtained his weapon, a .223-caliber rifle.