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NBC News reports:
House Democrats led by Civil Rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, are in the midst of a sit-in on the chamber floor to try and force a vote on gun control. “Now is the time for us to find a way to dramatize it, to make it real,” Lewis said. “We have to occupy the floor of the House until there is action.”
Then Lewis and roughly 40 House Democrats sat. They stood briefly to say the Pledge of Allegiance as a couple dozen visitors in the gallery looked on. “No bill, no break” the House Democrats chanted loudly as they returned to sitting on the floor.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina led the gathering of Democrats in a prayer on the House floor and visitors in the gallery stood for the prayer. The protest is not being televised because the House has not formally gaveled into session.
BREAKING: Rep. Lewis: “We have to occupy the floor” of US House until action taken on gun control; sit-in underway.https://t.co/KYKvYvzbBl
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) June 22, 2016
NOW: House members are sitting on the floor in protest of @SpeakerRyan refusal to bring gun measures to a vote pic.twitter.com/8RPQzVZSUF — igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 22, 2016
We are one people, one family, one America. We must come together to fight the senseless plague of gun violence. https://t.co/nuK39eqSAG
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) June 22, 2016