Watch Live: Rabbi Stages Sit-In at Nancy Pelosi’s Office Against Antisemitism
Rabbi Aryeh Spero is calling for a sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Washington, DC, office Thursday at 1 p.m.
Rabbi Aryeh Spero is calling for a sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Washington, DC, office Thursday at 1 p.m.
WARSAW (AFP) – Poland’s liberal opposition on Thursday called an end to its unprecedented month-long occupation of parliament after the governing conservatives scrapped controversial planned media restrictions.
Nancy Pelosi could be Speaker of the House again. The die-hard San Francisco leftist, who presided over record deficits, forced through Obamacare over Republican objections, and centralized power in the Speaker’s office, could reclaim the gavel.
The House Majority Leader told reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing Tuesday that he and Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) are working with the House Sergeant-at-Arms to catalog how Democrats broke House rules, broke House furniture, and broke a tradition of civility by their rudeness to House employees during their June 22 sit-in on the floor of the lower chamber.
Democrat House members ended their sit-in on June 23 without securing any new gun control or even a vote on gun control.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who participated in the protest, sent a message to supporters while literally on the House floor,
“Radical Islam killed those poor innocent victims! Radical Islam killed those poor innocent victims!” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Texas) pointing to a placard with the faces of the 49 victims killed June 12 by a Omar Mateen at Orlando’s Pulse, a gay nightclub. Some of the victims and more than 50 survivors were shot by police officers, but the details have not been released.
As California Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman spoke Wednesday evening during an unprecedented “sit-in” on Capitol Hill to demand a vote on gun control, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) interrupted him, shouting: “Radical Islam killed these people!”
Last week, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) delivered the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.