This is happening right now.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...age-sit-in
Bunch of pansies. I thought politicians were supposed to behave respectably, not like 60s radicals or college students demanding a safe space.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...age-sit-in
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Demanding Action On Gun Control, House Democrats Stage Sit-In
June 22, 201612:01 PM ET
EYDER PERALTA
Demanding action on gun control, about 30 Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives are staging a sit-in.
Rep. John Yarmuth ✔ @RepJohnYarmuth
I'm on the House floor with @repjohnlewis & Dems staging a sit-in to demand action on commonsense gun legislation
11:34 AM - 22 Jun 2016
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"Lawmakers are grouped in the well of the chamber, in front of the speaker's dais and in chairs in the front row," NPR's Sue Davis reports. "Some members are literally sitting on the floor of the House."
When the House was gaveled back into session a little after noon, Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas who was overseeing proceedings, was shouted down by members.
"No bill, no break," they chanted. The House is scheduled to break beginning on Sunday.
A prayer was said and members recited the Pledge of Allegiance, but once it became clear that regular business would not take place, Poe called for another recess.
AshLee Strong, a spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan, said the House "cannot operate without members following the rules of the institution, so the House has recessed subject to the call of the chair."
Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, announced the sit in earlier this morning.
"We have lost hundreds and thousands of innocent people to gun violence — tiny little children, babies, students and teachers, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, friends and neighbors — and what has this body done?" Lewis said flanked by fellow Democrats. "Mr. Speaker nothing. "Not one thing."
Lewis' colleagues in the Senate held the floor for nearly 15 hours last week demanding much the same thing. Senate Democrats eventually succeeded in getting a vote, but all four gun control measures failed.
Bunch of pansies. I thought politicians were supposed to behave respectably, not like 60s radicals or college students demanding a safe space.