Posted on 12/27/2016 5:43:20 PM PST by SMGFan
House Republicans are aiming to ensure there's no repeat of a Democratic sit-in last summer over gun control. GOP leaders are planning a vote on a set of rules changes when Congress convenes in January that includes fines for members who use electronic devices to take pictures or video from the House floor. The proposal comes six months after Democrats live-streamed a sit-in on the House floor for 26 hours last June to call attention to their demand for votes on gun-control bills. Republican leaders shut off the cameras in the House gallery throughout most of the protest, but Democrats used their cellphones to transmit video on social media. C-SPAN broadcast live video streamed on Periscope and Facebook from lawmakers' accounts. The proposed fines — $500 for a first offense and $2,500 for any subsequent offense — would be docked from the salaries of offending lawmakers. The new rules would not be retroactive, so those who participated in the sit in last summer won't be penalized.
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The fines are chump change. If you’re gonna fine em make it hurt. More year salary!
What a pile of waste...... sitting in at Woolsworth lunch counter all over again.
I would pour itching powder all over the floor before they sit down
Take away seniority; make it hurt.
Death of Constitutional government is their goal.
Arrest their asses for TRESPASS. They are not authorized to do that crap.
To REALLY hurt them, cut their pensions as punishment.
Spread a bucket of thumb tacks on the floor.
Why not just have a rule that no cell phones are allowed on the floor?
I know, that would be too easy for these geniuses.
Put the video cameras on them and create funny captions. Ridicule them mercilessly.
Time for :
“The Cone of Silence”
I’m good with that.
And then force them to sign up for Obamacare.
Jam the electronics.
My first thought too. They need to add a comma and 3 more zeroes to those fines
Great. i like jail!!
“Arrest their asses for TRESPASS. They are not authorized to do that crap.”
You’ve got it right. Go to war with those bastards, enough of this petulant behavior by Dems and their supporters.
Glad to see Republicans really on the job looking after the peoples business down there./SARCASM
Yeah, because the last one was such a lalapoolaza with voters.
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