According to a floor schedule circulated by democratic whip steny hoyer before the sit in started the first vote was expected between 3 p m.
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The 2016 united states house of representatives sit in began on june 22 2016 when members of the house democratic caucus led by georgia representative john lewis and massachusetts representative katherine clark and illinois representative robin kelly declared their intention to remain on the floor of the united states house of representatives until its republican speaker paul ryan.
Even if these guys were right which they re not and were calling for something that would address the problem of islamic terrorism which they re not it s pretty dumb for united states representatives to stage a sit in on the house floor.
David cicilline s twitter stephen gutowski june 22 2016 1 39 pm a number of house democrats are protesting for votes on new gun control measures by sitting.
The whole point of a sit in is to disrupt a place where you re not supposed to be.