U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is trying to allow federal agencies to study gun violence, despite a current ban in place to prevent the CDC from ever promoting gun safety.

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy is making a push to allow federal agencies to study gun violence following her meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Murphy, D-Winter Park, was part of a bipartisan group of legislators who met with Trump at the White House as Congress debates gun reform in the wake of the Feb. 14 Parkland high school shooting that killed 17 people.

During an appearance on the Morning Joe program on MSNBC on Thursday, she said a bill she sponsored, the Gun Violence Research Act, would overturn the 1996 Dickey Amendment, which mandates, “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”

Her bill “allows the CDC and other federal agencies to research gun violence,” Murphy said on the show. “This is a public health crisis, and we need the facts and research and data to cut through the polarized and ideological conversation we’re having about gun violence.”

She said she hoped Trump’s apparent willingness to buck the NRA could lead to a “Nixon goes to China” moment in which policy reforms come from an unlikely source.

“I was really heartened by what the president said in terms of commitments he made to see this through to the end,” Murphy told MSNBC, pointing to the impact of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shootings on her district. “I represent a district in Central Florida that was deeply affected by Pulse, and I will tell you my constituents in Florida want to see us take action.”

She added, “Trump might be the only president who might help us advance some common sense gun safety measures.”

Murphy said she hopes to see him “encouraging and pressuring the GOP-led Congress to allow some of these votes to come to the floor.”