Okay, this is WAY out of hand
I suppose they should be happy the Capital police were called instead of declaring them terrorists and calling Homeland Security.
The Republican Extremists are totally fucked up and totally out of control.
House Democrats Storm Out of Ways and Means Committee Chairman Calls Capitol Police to Restore Order
By Juliette Eilperin and Albert B. Crenshaw
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 18, 2003; 4:06 PM
Months of political tension in the House of Representatives erupted into open warfare today when Democrats stormed out of a Ways and Means Committee session and the panel's chairman called in the Capitol Police.
The day began with a fairly ordinary procedural fight over an otherwise-innocuous pension bill. Committee Democrats complained that the Republican majority had not given them enough time to review a substitute bill that they had received shortly before midnight Thursday. Most of the Democrats then moved to a nearby library to plot strategy after they demanded that Republicans read the legislation line by line.
Infuriated, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) instructed the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats from the ornate library. Republicans said Democrats were being disorderly and did not have the right to occupy the libary.
After the one remaining Ways and Means Democrat got in a spat with a GOP committee member, Thomas dispensed with the reading of the bill altogether and pushed through the legislation, without a single Democratic vote.
Later: Leah at Eschaton notes that
this sort of crap has been going on for a while. I'll be honest, I didn't know. It seems the House Republicans are not only trying to redistrict the Democratic Party out of existance, but are actively preventing elected Democrats from representing their constituency.
Nancy Pelosi has introduced a resolution condemning the garbage I initially posted about. Leah posted the contact information for
Pelosi, minority whip
Steny Hoyer, and
Charles Rangel, who is the ranking minority member on the Ways and Means Committee. You have to get behind these folks.
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