PATHETIC DO-NOTHING DEMOCRATS STAGE ANTI-GUN SIT-IN PROTEST ON HOUSE FLOOR
After about 10 minutes of
escalating questions — and shouting, “Where is our soul? Where is our
courage?” — Lewis said it was time for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to
bring up some of the pending gun control bills. In the meantime, he
said, he’d just take a seat.
by Geoffrey GriderJune 22, 2016
DEMOCRATS LITERALLY SAT DOWN ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE CHAMBER ON WEDNESDAY — AND FORCED THE HOUSE INTO A TEMPORARY RECESS — AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO COMPEL REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP TO VOTE ON GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION.
EDITOR’S NOTE: It
is disgraceful that we live in a country where phony campaigns against
“gun violence” take precedence over removing the threat of Islamic
terrorism from within our borders. Guns didn’t kill those 50+ victims in
Orlando two weeks ago, an Islamic terrorist killed those people.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the
civil rights icon who led sit-ins all through the 1960s, spearheaded
the effort with a fiery, sermon-like denunciation of Congress for its
failure to act in the wake of mass shootings.
“For
months, even for years, through seven sessions of Congress, I wondered,
what would bring this body to take action?” Lewis said while Democrats
slowly surrounded him at the microphone. “We have lost hundreds and
thousands of innocent people to gun violence. Tiny little children.
Babies. Students. And teachers. Mother and fathers. Sisters and
brothers. Daughters and sons. Friends and neighbors. And what has this
body done? Mr. Speaker, not one thing.”
After about 10 minutes of escalating questions —
and shouting, “Where is our soul? Where is our courage?” — Lewis said
it was time for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to bring up some of the
pending gun control bills. In the meantime, he said, he’d just take a
seat. Moments later, he sat down on the floor. And so did all the other
Democrats with him.
“Sometimes
you have to do something out of the ordinary. Sometimes you have to
make a way out of no way. We’ve been quiet for too long,” Lewis said.
“Now is the time to get in the way. We will be silent no more. The time
for silence is over.”
As another Democrat began to speak, the Republican lawmaker sitting in the chair gaveled the House into a temporary recess until noon. The
House cut off the C-SPAN cameras that normally broadcast the
floor. Later, when lawmakers reconvened, Democratic members still
refused to budge, forming a circle in the well of the floor while
chanting. Republicans were forced to gavel into recess once more.
It’s
not clear what GOP leaders plan to do now. “The House cannot operate
without members following the rules of the institution, so the House has
recessed subject to the call of the chair,” said Ryan spokeswoman
AshLee Strong.
SEVERAL DEMOCRATS TWEETED PICTURES FROM THE PROTEST, USING THEIR NEWLY COINED HASHTAG #NOBILLNOBREAK.
In the absence of cameras, Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) broadcast clips on Twitter of members speaking. C-SPAN then broadcast Periscope and Facebook Live streams of the action.
Democratic
senators also showed up to stand or sit with their colleagues. Among
them were: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Chris Coons (Del.), Chuck
Schumer (N.Y.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Al Franken (Minn.), Tim Kaine
(Va.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.),
Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chris Murphy (Conn.),
Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.) and Mazie Hirono
(Hawaii). Presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)joined late in the afternoon.
Lewis’
effort was a dramatic attempt to force the hand of Republicans before
the chamber adjourns later this week for a weeklong recess. But it’s not
the only disruption House Democrats are planning. According to multiple
aides and lawmakers, Democrats will try to essentially hijack the House
floor both Wednesday and Thursday in an effort to get gun control measures a hearing.
The
“No Bill, No Break” campaign centers on clever and repeated use of
procedural rules. Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) has
already tried and failed, twice, to bring up legislation to deny people
on the no-fly list the right to purchase a firearm.
But
the extent of the party’s plans has been kept largely under wraps out
of concern that Republicans would move to undermine the strategy.
Several aides have described it as a “disruption” campaign. One
Democratic lawmaker said the party was “devising a variety of
parliamentary tactics to pressure the GOP in D.C. this week, then in
individual districts next week during recess.”
“Watch the floor carefully this week,” the lawmaker added. source
Laura J Alcorn
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