Quick Takes: When Congress Leads the Protest [View all]

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* This morning I asked: What Happens When One Party Doesn’t Care About Governing? Perhaps the answer is that Congressional members of the other party don the role of protesters – as Sen. Chris Murphy did last week and Rep. John Lewis did today. Their point has been to force votes on common sense gun reform in the wake of the Orlando shooting. But I think there might be more to it than that.



John Lewis
✔ ‎@repjohnlewis

We have to ask who we are as a people. Are we a people of progress or a people of inaction? #holdthefloor

1:44 PM - 22 Jun 2016

I get the feeling these Democrats have had about enough of Republican obstruction and inaction. Just as the sit-ins at lunch counters were about a lot more than where African Americans were allowed to eat, the one today on the House floor, combined with the filibuster last week, might be about more than a vote on gun reform.

* Obviously our Community Organizer-in-Chief approves.


President Obama
✔ ‎@POTUS

Thank you John Lewis for leading on gun violence where we need it most. https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/745631702186336256 …

1:45 PM - 22 Jun 2016

* This might be my favorite tweet about the sit-in today.




Trita Parsi
✔ ‎@tparsi

So I'm meeting with @keithellison. His scheduler walks in and hands him this note. Meeting ends #NoBillNoBreak

1:24 PM - 22 Jun 2016

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