Watch Democratic House Sit-In

Watch Democratic House Sit-In

By barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 4:09pm |

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http://www.c-span.org/video/?411624-1/watch-house-democrats-continue-house-sitin-gun-violence&live

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The House Republican leadership will not allow the cameras to be on, so C-Span is covering the Facebook live feed Rep. O'Rourke of TX is providing (via periscope). Many Senators have joined the fight as well ...#NoBillNoBreak

Edit: What's happened over the last four hours

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/house-democrats-gun-control-sit-in/488264/

by barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 4:22pm

Thx

This is great. Do you know if CSPAN has been shut down before?

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 4:22pm

The House is technically in recess - though votes were scheduled as of 3PM - during which the cameras are off. Ryan could change that if he chose, ~~just as they finally turned the microphone on.~~

by barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 11:38pm

This is amazing. Democracy in action. Couldn't be prouder of the Democrats right now.

Fired up!

by Ramona on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 6:23pm

Ready to go!

by barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 6:42pm

I've been watching it for hours. What an amazing day! I guess when enough is enough, it's enough.

by Ramona on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 9:21pm

THIS IS A BIG FRICKIN DEAL FOR SURE.

HAHAHAHAHAH

I am watching on MSNBC.

THIS IS A BIG FRICKIN DEAL!

Why not a little songfest?

by Richard Day on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 10:52pm

It's about time!

by CVille Dem on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 10:38pm

GOOD ONE MISSY.

BUT THE DAMN THINGY DOES NOT WORK. You have to redo it with the linky thingy.

SO HERE IS THE LINK

http://www.c-span.org/video/?411624-1/watch-house-democrats-continue-house-sitin-gun-violence&live

by Richard Day on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 10:57pm

by barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 11:29pm

hahahahah

How ya doin Missy? ha

by Richard Day on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 11:35pm

I've spent much of the day/evening watching Democrats finally do some real, live attention-getting, so I'm good!

by barefooted on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 11:41pm

I've been wondering why no one was dragged screaming off the House floor in either 2003 or 2008-9. Glad it's a good cause.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 6:52am

Glen Greenwald lovers, his take on Democrats and the gun issue:

I wonder who Democrats think will end up on these secret suspicion-based lists they are trying to implement? Any guesses?

Dems aren't trying to fix this list. They love secret, discriminatory suspicion-based terror watch lists, just like Bush admin did

Driftglass on Glen Greenwald:

Whenever there is some headline-grabbing barbarity somewhere in the world that is in related to those who pervert Islam to serve horrific ends, you can always count on America's premier, globe-trotting, indignance-chasing attorney will be johnny-on-the-spot to set up his card table right in the center of it so he can angrily pamphleteer passer's by about the real tragedy

by NCD on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 10:01am

I sometimes disagree with Glenzilla but he hit the nail on the head with this attack on this democrat election year stunt and their demand for more police-state stripping people of due process that has no effect on gun violence just as background checks has had no measurable effect on GV. Mateen wasn't on this secret list so he wouldn't have been deterred by these new extreme restrictions.

Greenwald is a journalist with his own forum so Driftglass' comment seems to be sour grapes, who the hell is Driftglass?

by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 10:39am

hmmm, I agree with Peter? the no-fly list has been a black hidey hole where people can never get off because they're not allowed to know why they're there in the first place, even if it's a misspelling. (Buttle? Tuttle? ironic Glenn's writing from Brazil?)

Yeah, our monitoring of Muslim populations, looking for suspicious characters at falafel joints, has been largely bizarre and intrusive. And it's not like I'm looking for catching suspicious characters buying AR-15's for domestic use - I'm concerned about *ANYONE* buying AR-15's for whatever freak purpose they have in mind. Yeah, blowing shit up is great - I worked for a short time in munitions and incindiary devices - but it seems short of a Constitutional right to me.

Close down the gun shops and ad hoc sales - don't increase the surveillance. Ferguson and Chicago et al wouldn't be helped at all by no-fly-no-buy, nor would Sandy Hook, etc.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 11:11am

The attempt to pass the bill failed yesterday. 46 Republicans and 11 Democrats supported the surveillance bill. There are 44 Democrats in the Senate, so 75% fought against the bill. 46 of the 54 or 85% of Republicans supporter the bill

http://www.newsweek.com/senate-rejects-fbi-new-powers-snoop-through-peop...

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