GOP Leaders To Discuss Investigating Dem Sit-In Over Gun Control Votes

UNITED STATES - MAY 17: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., conduct a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol, May 17, 20... UNITED STATES - MAY 17: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., conduct a news conference after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol, May 17, 2016. The National Defense Authorization Act and opioid addiction were topics of their remarks. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters on Tuesday that he will meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the House sergeant-at-arms on Tuesday afternoon to discuss whether to launch a formal investigation into the sit-in demonstration staged by House Democrats at the end of June, according to the Washington Post.

McCarthy said that House Democrats “went beyond the rules” during the sit-in calling for votes on gun control legislation. The House was in recess for most of the sit-in, though House leaders managed to hold votes on a bill to address the Zika virus over the chants of protests from Democratic members of Congress.

“We expect members of Congress to adhere to the rules and decorum,” McCarthy told reporters, according to the Washington Post.

Democrats used cell phones and social media to post updates and stream video of the protest while the House was adjourned, which is not allowed. McCarthy also told reporters that he has heard that House Democrats used “intimidation” against staffers during the protest, according to The Hill.

A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dismissed McCarthy’s comments about a potential investigation.

“The lengths the House Republican leadership will go to follow the NRA’s marching orders know no bounds,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.

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  1. The GOP will be investi–Benghazi!–sorry, they will be investigating the–Benghazi!–sorry, just a verbal tic.

  2. Well, there goes another 7 million dollars down the drain.

  3. I honestly can’t stand these people. The false outrage and indignance is pathetic. They’ll shut down government over the dumbest thing, putting thousands out of work! However, one protest and they act like the cliche of an elderly lady fainting. they are grown, small and petty children.

    edited—sorry, in my rage I leave out stuff…my brain works faster than my fingers. :grinning:

  4. Oh, god… yes, please!

    Keep this story in the news cycle and ratchet it up by trying to have these people arrested.

    Have you never heard of how civil disobedience and public symbols work? This was a cool story that most people forgot about by the weekend. There is no part of keeping this story on the news that is good for you. There is no part of trying to use the police to threaten, intimidate, or arrest Rep. Lewis that ends well for for you.

    This guy faced off with the racist police in the 1960s South, where getting arrested was the nicest thing they could do to you. You think you’re going to scare him off with the House Sergeant-at-Arms.

    But hey, you haven’t totally shot yourselves in the foot, politically, since nominating Donald Trump, so I guess you’re due…

  5. Please, please, please, please, please.

    Democrats used cell phones and social media to post updates and stream video of the protest while the House was adjourned, which is not allowed.

    This is actually what angers them the most.

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