A group of about a dozen protesters, many of them clad in white lab coats, disrupted the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as senators prepared to vote to proceed on a series of bills to kill the Affordable Care Act. As the group chanted “Kill the bill, don’t kill us” and “shame,” Democratic and Republican senators sat silent and expressionless at their desks, waiting for the protesters to be removed so they could vote on the motion to proceed.
Immediately before the chanting began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged his colleagues to vote to advance the repeal effort.
“Look, we can’t let this moment slip by,” McConnell said. “We can’t let it slip by. We’ve talked about this too long. We’ve wrestled with this issue. We’ve watched the consequences of the status quo. The people who sent us here expect us to begin this debate.”
It took several minutes to escort the protesters out of the chamber, and even once they were all removed, their chants rang out from the adjacent hallway, clearly audible as the senators began to vote.
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Protesters chant "Kill the bill. Don't kill us." in Senate chamber ahead of motion to proceed vote. https://t.co/HIUtN7uVeG
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I hate these people. I hate these people. I hate these people.
Today’s fucking mantra.
What a pointless exercise – these protesters need to grasp that the GOP not only doesn’t care about killing the uninsured, they WANT the uninsured to die. It’s a feature, not a bug.
McConnell: “C’mon guys, all I want to do is kill the population of Kentucky so millionaires and captains of industry will finally be FORCED to talk to me instead of shoving me into a hodunk state filled with people I hate.” It takes a certain kind of self-loathing for guys like Bitch to wake up in the morning
It is not pointless and is never pointless. IT is one of our rights and I hope it makes it onto at least some news casts and I suspect it will.
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