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Make my Day! Make my Day!
Speaker Paul Ryan vowed Democrats would face sanctions for the 25-hour sit-in they launched last month on the House floor that delayed legislative business and forced GOP leaders to cut their voting schedule short.
"Make my day. Make my day." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, daring Republicans to call more attention to the protest, with a comment reminiscent of Clint Eastwood's famous "Dirty Harry" character.
Pelosi argued the delay on moving the GOP bill "shows that House Republicans are completely untethered from the reality of gun violence in our country."
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That was an epic sit in. I'm going to try and not swear here LOL
Where's my duct tape?
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Oh go ahead say it! NE.Democrats brushed aside threats of sanctions, and spent much of Thursday on the floor preventing GOP leaders from considering an annual spending bill for financial services. As the House opened up for the day,
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton went to the well for morning hour and began reading the names of gun violence victims on the floor. As he recited each name a series of House Democrats came up next to him in the well and held up pictures of victims. It is against the rules for more than one member to stand at the podium at a time.
The presiding officer informed Moulton that his time expired, but he kept reading, so the Chair gaveled him down and recessed the House. When legislative business resumed, House Democrats lined up and asked one after another for "unanimous consent" for the House to take up gun legislation, holding pictures of victims of gun violence.
I love that the Democrats are not backing down. Paul Ryan is looking stupid right now.
ALL he has to do is 'TAKE THE VOTE"!!!
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I'm too busy yelling at some a$$ on TV saying thy deserved it. (they are discussing the police shootings) while showing pictures of protests everywhere and NYC (CNN) just lost their live feed LOL
I LOVE what the senators did starting with Chris Murphy and his filibuster and then Lewis picking it up and having a peaceful sit in. This is the stuff of my youth LOLOL
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Spunky wrote:
Oh go ahead say it! NE.Democrats brushed aside threats of sanctions, and spent much of Thursday on the floor preventing GOP leaders from considering an annual spending bill for financial services. As the House opened up for the day,
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton went to the well for morning hour and began reading the names of gun violence victims on the floor. As he recited each name a series of House Democrats came up next to him in the well and held up pictures of victims. It is against the rules for more than one member to stand at the podium at a time.
The presiding officer informed Moulton that his time expired, but he kept reading, so the Chair gaveled him down and recessed the House. When legislative business resumed, House Democrats lined up and asked one after another for "unanimous consent" for the House to take up gun legislation, holding pictures of victims of gun violence.
I love that the Democrats are not backing down. Paul Ryan is looking stupid right now.
ALL he has to do is 'TAKE THE VOTE"!!!
But Ryan can't take the vote because then all those NRA bought and paid for Senators won't get reelected in November. 
