Posted on 06/23/2016 11:08:27 AM PDT by PROCON
Democrats ended their sit-in on the House floor shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, after more than 24 hours of stalling proceedings to call for action on gun-control legislation.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) spoke while surrounded by his Democratic colleagues to close the protest, which lasted through the night after beginning shortly after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
"We must come back on July 5 more determined than ever before," Lewis declared in anticipation of the House's return date after the Independence Day recess.
Democrats planned to hold a rally on the Capitol steps after ending the sit-in, but what their next move is remains unclear.
Dozens of leaders and senior party members spilled out of a whip meeting on Thursday afternoon saying they intend to press for gun reform votes, but there did not seem to be a definitive plan for doing so.
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I’ve forgotten who first said it, but it’s true - Lewis, you used to sit in to protect people’s rights and now you’re sitting in to take them away. And that about sums up the entire story of the Democrat party.
And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)
And it continues...
And there is more...
And more...
And yet more...
And more and more and...
We just keep buyin' more...
And we bought more more more...
And more and more and more...
KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)
Of course they wouldn’t miss out on their vacation. It’s like protesting by staying “late at work one night” to the exhausting time of 5:01 pm
These people have no backbone. Sitting must have been hard on them.
This sit-in is now the old news and buried in the sands of time.
Bump, good info, thanks!
Did they get their wittle feewing hurt?
Better go home and cry to mommy.
They no doubt had planes to catch. It was Thursday afternoon, after all.
My pleasure. Let them run on gun control. Ask Big Algore how that works.
I hope you are right.
They want to take away our guns as we are being attacked by muslims.
Let em run with it in the general election.
Its a winning message!
Fixed it.
No, Al, we must improve our care of the mentally ill.
Tired of sitting on their azz. We pay these people. Sickening.
Without guns there would be no Independence Day (4th of July).
We would still be governed from London, England.
Children throwing a tantrum.
There was also face painting at some of the drum circles.
A 16 hour circle-jerk.
What happened to the no bill-no vote horsechit? This whole thing was over the democrats getting to vote on a bill that the Senate had already defeated.
And then today, after swearing on a stack of Korans that they were staying until they got to vote, they pack up and go home saying that "by god when they get back it's going to be different."
B.S.
Ryan better get his act together though and slam these scumbags when they show up again or he's going to get a steady diet of this.
That kind of rep doesn't do much for political aspirations or his legacy as SotH.
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