Sit-In in the House
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From the Left
How Democrats mounted their guns sit-inWhile Hillary Clinton was rallying with House Democrats at a high-profile meeting Wednesday morning in the Capitol Hill basement, one senior lawmaker was missing.
Connecticut Rep. John Larson skipped the rare session with his party’s presidential hopeful for a face-to-face with the House parliamentarian. Larson had an obscure question about House rules: What would happen if he and a bunch of his colleagues took to the House floor to stage a sit-in protest, effectively shutting down the H
From the Right
Democrats, You Aren’t Brave For Standing Against the Bill of Rights. You’re Tyrants.Today, Democrats in the House sat on their butts and accomplished nothing of value. It was just like every other day, but this time they did it without chairs.
From the Left
Democrats Finally Try To Do Something About The Gun BloodshedJohn Lewis knows blood. And more than 61 years after he led marchers over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in the struggle for civil rights, he knows what it means to take a stand.
So it was no mistake that his Democratic colleagues turned to the congressman from Georgia on Wednesday, asking him to lead a new stand by taking over the floor of the United States House of Representatives.
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