Families of the victims of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, N.Y., are expected to testify before the U.S. House Committee on gun violence on Wednesday.

The Oversight Committee will hear from parents of victims and survivors at the hearing on the gun violence crisis.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday they were encouraged by talks with Republicans on firearms legislation, but warned that any compromise would fall well short of all the steps they say are needed to curb gun violence.

The Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, said he hoped the two sides would find common ground after a wave of mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y.; Uvalde, Texas; Tulsa, Okla.; and elsewhere

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