According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa House Democrats have moved away from the state’s legislature and into an undisclosed location. The move is a protest against the GOP majority’s scheduling of two gun bills for debate today. Democratic leaders say they were misled about when the bills would be brought to the floor and so they had not filed the amendments they desired. One of the bills aims at rewriting the law on “reasonable force” used in self-defense, and the other alters the state constitution specifically to include gun rights.
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Republicans hold 60 of 100 seats and could debate the bill without Democrats since they have a quorum. The majority party sets the calendar for debate and guides the course of business on the House floor.
“We have been double-crossed as a caucus, and we’re not going to sit back and be treated with historic misuse of power,” [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy said.
