Ryan meeting with House officials on investigation of Democratic sit-in on gun legislation
Source: The Washington Post
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) plan to meet Tuesday afternoon with House officials to decide whether to conduct a formal investigation of the behavior of Democrats during their 26-hour protest last month demanding votes on gun legislation.
McCarthy told reporters Tuesday that Democrats, who seized and held the floor most of June 22 and June 23, chanting and broadcasting their demonstration through social media, went beyond the rules on several fronts and that he thinks some form of punishment may be needed.
We expect members of Congress to adhere to the rules and decorum, McCarthy said, suggesting that broadcasting their protest clearly broke rules and that fundraising pitches based on the sit-in might have crossed ethical lines. He also said that he has been told that some Democrats were abusive toward the nonpartisan staff members who serve the chamber and who were trying to do their jobs but were obstructed by lawmakers who had formed a sit-in around their desks in the well of the chamber.
If that is true, whats gone on, action has to be taken, McCarthy said.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/07/05/ryan-meeting-with-house-officials-on-investigation-of-democratic-sit-in-on-gun-legislation/
Yay!!!! Another GOP sponsored investigation!
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)Repukes are cowards, the Democratic Representatives showed backbone by sitting, and as a result, there will be at least a vote on gun legislation.
See? Easy peasy. Now get on with something else more important you bums.
Warpy
(111,124 posts)Republicans were embarrassed and the worst thing you can do to a stuffed shirt fraud is embarrass him.
If the sit in was spontaneous, they're SOL. If they can find a "leader," something their own party relies on for top-down action, then they'll censure. My guess is that the whole thing was spontaneous.
rexcat
(3,622 posts)because down the line he may need the Democrats or some of the Democrats for a vote when the Tea Party Republicans get in a snit. If the Democrats do get censured they will need to make it clear to Ryan that they will never bail him out as they did Boehner.
calimary
(81,085 posts)They LOVE LOVE LOVE these "investigations!!!!!!!!" so why wouldn't they? After all, it's an election year.
And they've gotta be seen as doing SOMETHING since everything else they've done in the past seven-and-some years has been to say no, no, no, no, no, and doing absolutely NOTHING to help anybody or get anything done.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)"Hillary was emailing orders to Dem Congress representatives on how to handle the sit in"
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)and the lying Ryan and McCarthy are going to feel it in the
results of the 2016 elections
Spank them good!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)calimary
(81,085 posts)Because, damn them, they were sitting on the floor on their butts!!! Damn them!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Journeyman
(15,023 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)When they haven't done anything in years?
cstanleytech
(26,224 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)writing a 1000 "I will not sit on the House floor with out Overlord Ryan's permission."
chillfactor
(7,572 posts)another "investigation?" another waste of taxpayer money supporting another clown show.
Jim__
(14,059 posts)Allocate $100 million for the investigation.
Nitram
(22,755 posts)Investigating Democrats is all they know how to do. And it never, ever works. But they just keep trying. I guess they think one of these times they'll get it right.
allan01
(1,950 posts)these people were with in their first amendment rights .
justhanginon
(3,289 posts)could probably put his much vaunted investigatory skill to good use. Of course it will iinvolve many months and about seven million dollars. He offers guaranteed results with the caveat that they may not be exactly what you expected.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Nothing like close-up inspection.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)investigation. It is the only way to put a lid on this.
deminks
(11,013 posts)I mean the Dems can do whatever during recess, right?
and who is Pauly to talk of decorum and ethics. Does he really want to go there?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)If Joe Wilson faced no punishment for his bullshit during the first State of the Union Address by the FIRST African American president, then nobody who was part of the sit-in should face ANYTHING EVEN RESEMBLING PUNISHMENT!
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)and appoint a special committee to investigate made up of mostly Repukes. Please waste more taxpayer money on a non-issue. But I really despise how much taxpayer money they have already wasted and I hope they realize how truly stupid they would look to spend several months on this. I know they live in a bubble, but are they pumping helium into that bubble?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)rurallib
(62,373 posts)should stir some memories. Facebook and youtube will be clogged with pics and videos from 50 to 60 years ago of lewis in a previous situation.
Do it Ryan.
downeastdaniel
(497 posts)kairos12
(12,841 posts)red dog 1
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This from the Majority Leader of the most inactive House of Representatives in American history?
K&R!
MADem
(135,425 posts)He should have left the CSPAN cameras ON if he wanted to see what was going on....! LOL!!
BumRushDaShow
(128,377 posts)It's even on the Speaker of the House's webpage (where Ryan's press office proudly reports the 2008 GOP takeover event).