larson: john. listeningyou who were speech everthe best on the floor of the house of representatives, and there's been a lot of good ones, was given today by our own john lewis. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. lewis: thank you, john larson. we owe john larson -- [applause] he's been here for hours. john larson. [applause] thank you. katherine, thank you. i want to thank each and every ne of you for finding a way to get in the way. thank you for getting in trouble. good trouble. [applause] you didn't have to do it, but you did it. i never, ever thought that one day after sitting in many days 1960, when i s in had hair on my head and a few ounds lighter, that i would be sitting down on the house floor with all you great democrats. this was wonderful. [applause] sitting here since early this morning. you came to the floor at 9:00. 9:30. during five-minutes. look what time it is. you're still standing. by sitting down, sitting in, you're standing up. [applause] we protest for what is right. this m

john larson, john lewis, kathleen, everybody did so much great work. but you're the heart and soul.home, get some sleep. >> can you tell us what happened? >> nothing. see you back here in two weeks. >> joining us now, a former congressional correspondent. jonathan, i know you've been on for a few hours. have you ever seen anything like this before? >> no, absolutely not. certainly hugely unusual within the house of representatives. the rules being broken there, the democrats holding their own session when the house was out of session. the end result from a legislative standpoint is republicans are going to get out of town here, having done the business that they wanted to. but democrats have a public relations victory in terms of bringing attention to the issue and bringing more pressure on republicans in competitive house districts before the november election. >> congressman steve israel was on earlier, talking about the fact that they made their point and if everybody adjourns and go home, the democrats are going to go back with their victory, but the republicans will have to ans

lewis, with the actions of catherine clark and david sisley the, with the management of it all by john larson all day and steve all night. with the periscope to give us access to the outside world or the outside world access to us. scott and mark, so our members were very resourceful and that created a blank in the wilderness that nobody could hear kids were just talking to herself in the chamber. whether it was 2.6 was it 2.6 million contacts one where the other? so technology has enabled us to communicate in social media. all this will not of been possible without the activism with outside groups whether it is every time, weathers months against guns, of course the brady campaign, really the leader of all of us in all of this, the giver group, and the list goes on. i looked at hundreds of the groups in preparation for the communication and activism we needed. so with that, i would be pleased to take any questions you may have. >> if i don't associate your voice in your direction it's because i haven't been asleep yet did any of you get any sleep last night? >> representative lewis said last

the sit-in organized by congressman john larson of connecticut and led by civil rights icon congressman john lewis began just before 11:30 yesterday morning and stretched on into the early morning. around 2:30 last night, paul ryan opened a new legislative day complete with pledge of allegiance, then the house over the chants of democrats completed a week's worth of business, adjourned and won't return until july 5th. that capped the dramatic day that began with a man who is no stranger to protest. >> newtown. charleston, orlando. what is the tipping point? are we blind? can we see? how many more mothers, how many more fathers need to shed tears of grief before we do something? we were elected to lead, mr. speaker. we must be head lights and not taillights. we cannot continue to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the reality of mass gun violence in our nation. >> just as the sit-in was beginning, the house took a recess. meaning the camera's under control of the majority party were cut. democrats took to the protest with social media, some members broadcasting live on facebook and p

i want to thank john larson who is still on the floor. he did a great job tonight. >> thank you. i want to thank all of these members for the efforts they have made. i want to mention one thing. it should not be missed tonight. in many ways, this fight on the floor, the request for these bills is about the public safety . there was another bill that pas sed this night, not the gun bills that would have made people safer. nota bill that does adequately or effectively deal with the zika crisis. that is it of a public health crisis that confront our country. the republicans brought to the floor a partisan bill, and put of committee with only republican signatures. they put it out in short narrowly short period of time. nobody had the time to read it and i just. they are sending it to a senate that will not pass it. not only did we leave washington this night having failed to pass gun legislation with which could make our people safer. we also failed to pass effectively a bill that would protecting them from the zika virus. on both fronts, the republicans that leave this house and ha

and john larson, i got word from together., let's get it is time to get in the way. it is time to make a difference. it is time to let the american people know that they do have a voice in this house. antennae, we hear this voice. -- and tonight, we hear this voice. media, theyocial ask, why we doing this? some say you should not do it. they said you can't win. you don't have the votes. they said you must be crazy. they said you are wasting your time. say, look atnd john lewis and 1963 when he was almost to death. they said -- beat to death. they said he couldn't do. he did not waste his time. what took place in this country, they said women would not have the right to vote and they did not have the right to vote. but women stood up and made sure the their voices were heard. they can both. -- vote. i look at what the place with african-americans. they said they could not vote. then they said they were only two thirds of a human being but we changed the constitution. today, as a look at what we are doing today, we can win and we will win. we can win and we will win. >

' office, we're planning something, it's going to be good, i thought, john larson's involved and john lewis' office is in it, i'm in there. as a freshman you don't get many opportunities to do something like that so i said i'm going to be about what they're about. and when i heard what they were going to do, what the subject was, to bring a vote to the floor i said more than anything i'm going to be there. for so many reasons. never mind the fact that it's the right thing to do, and we as members of congress are doing things not just for our own districts but for all the people of the united states of america and i want to be part of what's right for all americans and i know that the republicans want to do the same. but on a more personal level, i'm a mother of five children. i have four sons. as a black woman in america with four sons, three in their 20's, i hold my breath every time they go outside wondering what is going to happen to them. will the sons i raised that are gentlemen be gunned down by some foolishness and senseless violence? that's a personal reason. but so often you

let's go back to the house floor and congressman john larson. mr. larson: we understand what people have to do here in terms of their responsibilities. but this floor will always be occupied. we will figure out as we go how to do that. beal hear from john lewis about -- we'll hear from john lewis bout that shortly. mr. serrano: i wish you could see yourselves. i wish, i don't want you to turn away, because then you won't see me, i wish you could see america in front of us. we're not only america today, we're also america in the fact that we represent the people. over 9 to% who want this bill -- 90% who want this bill to be voted on. we are not in a vacuum. when i look at you, when i look at myself as part of you, i realize that the real representative of what this country is. the people who created this country did not have microphones, but their voice was heard throughout the world. they did not have tv cameras. still they created is imitated today. they continued their fight without a microphone, without a blogger, without anything else. but i know

i want to first thank john larson who has been here. [applause] >> thank you so much for all of the work you have done. catherine clark, thank you. it is the american people who have the power right now. i know this seems strange. it is cnn. and thank you -- i know this is being streamed. thank you to our younger members so that when they shut the microphones and cameras off there is still a way to talk to the american people. i want to talk to the american people tonight because the power is in your hands to change things tonight. in a little town next door to where i grew up outside of pittsburgh. there was a family having a barbecue in their yard. husbands, wives, aunts uncles and children. two guns, ak-47 and high capacity handgun started firing in that backyard killing five adults and an unborn child. 49 bullett casings were found in that yard.

larson: you have one. >> i would like to thank john arson. john larson. [applause] mr. graham: thank you, john. i am from the northern part of florida. i was in orlando when the shootings occurred. i woke up, i have a really bad habit. i look at my phone all through the night. i know. but this night i woke up about 3:00 this the morning. i looked at my -- 3:00 in the morning. i looked at my phone and i never went back to sleep. i'm a mom. i have three kids. they're grown. i'm like derek. where's derek? where are you? i tell you, every one here in this chamber that has young children, you have my immense respect. my children are grown. 25, 23 and he'll be 20, my youngest in eight days. inally going to have a beer. but i'm going to have the honor on friday night of giving the key note address in orlando to the orange county democrats. so i've been working on these remarks because they mean a lot. they mean a lot to the people of orlando, they mean a lot to the people of florida. so i thought i would read a ittle bit of it tonight. mena justice woke up at 2:00 in the mornin

listen to what connecticut democrat john larson said as members began to sit down. >> rise up, democrats. rise up, americans. this cannot stand. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: timeless. timeless. ( cheers and applause ) after watching that, i need to lie down. the democrats are demanding a vote before the fourth of july recess. and to send that message, they chanted "no bill, no break!" almost drowning out the gun lobby shouting, "i'll make the check out to cash!" republicans-- republicans are already responding. representative tom cole said, "i don't think we should allow any group to bring the work of the house to a halt." it's true. it's true. you wouldn't want the gridlock to lose its momentum. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) don't let your complete paralysis get in the way of a good stalemate. now, as of this taping, the democrats are still staging their sit-in. and if you want to know if it's still going on, just check out c-span. if you don't see them, they're there. and it's too bad c-span cut off those cameras, because they were the only ones in america

my appreciation for the leadership efforts taken by senator chris murphy and by representative john larson in the senate and house. this week. and i would also like to stress that i am frustrated that a discussion about guns in america has become so polarized across party lines, that it seem that no positive social dialogue is possible anymore. i think that when you have dialogue that is primarily centered on, you know, them and us, instead of you and i, or when you have a house floor where representatives are referring to other representatives of other -- of the other party, you know, as close friends but in reality they couldn't, you know, imply any more contempt, i think that it's really dangerous for any, you know, any sort of dialogue that's going to happen you know, in the people -- among the people of the united states and i think that when c-span, you know, opens up separate lines for democrats and for republicans, i think that's not fair to the social dialogue. i think that it promotes that polarization and just makes it that much easier for people to uphold the mentality that it

because of you and the instigations and john lewis and the orchestration by john larson and continued and the leadership of our party. the distribution of the message would not have been possible without all of you. and the continuation of the message will not be possible without all of you. i want to come here to say once again thank you, we shouted out during the night and some of you were here all night. thank you. thank you for being here and thank you for being there. thank you for being there for those of us saying no more. [ cheers ] a moment of silence, no more moment of silence without a clan in action. with my pleasure without further adieu to introduce the man of the hour, the man of the house, our great champion and inspiration, john lewis. [ cheers ] >> first of all, thank you. madame leader, nando de cocy pe. thank you, to my wonderful friends and colleagues. john lawson and john, where are you? >> in the crowd. [ laughs ] congresswoman claw. david -- thanking everybody, thank you for being here. thank you for all of your help. all right. >> thank you for all of your sup

again john lewis, katherine clark, john larson, to all of ,he colleagues thank you all and of course, our technicians. to all of our colleagues north and south, thank you. applause] i want to thank goal of you for working the night shift. waters, thank you. when the republicans cut and run in the dead of night, i've say we should stay here until sunrise. i don't know if you have noticed but ever since the republicans left, all of the hot hair has left. left. hair has we all receive e-mails and tweets, constituents and activists, talking about staying out all night. i don't think there is anything extraordinary about it all, to work all night. we get to take a nap, and wake up. america, there will be too many people who will not make it until tomorrow, who don't make it until tonight. that is what this is about. i want to share with you words that are more eloquent than any of us can ever speak, because the people who understand the impact of this are those who have lost someone to gun violence. weiss, whof bob wrote this article in 2016 entitled using my voice to make a change. i made

john larson, congressman from connecticut, tweeting earlier they can turn off the cameras but they can't keep us quiet. #no more silence. we want a vote on gun reform. luke russert is live on capitol hill with the latest. luke, we see what democrats are up to. they are sitting in, saying they're staying until the house actually takes action on this. what are we hearing in terms of the response from republicans who actually run the house? how are they going to handle this? >> reporter: so far, their response has been they are going to wait out the democrats. they believe that the democrats are in violation of the house rules and that they don't want to bend to pressure being put upon them by democrats because they don't want to set a precedent for if you're unhappy with how the votes are dictated, that you can just go sit in the chamber and get whatever you want. remember, the way it works in the house is that the party in power is in charge of the floor and they literally can make up the rules for what gets to the floor. there are no filibusters in the house. that's a senate tool. in the

lewis, with the actions of katherine clark and david sisilini, with the management of it all by john larsonsrael all night, with the periscope to give us access to the outside world or give them access to us, to o'rourke. let's see. scott and mark tacano. so our members were very resourceful and that just turned us up to a tree that has fallin in the wilderness that no one ka hear. we would just be talking to ourselves in the chamber. 2.6 billion? what was the figure. contacts in one way or another. technology has enabled us to communicate in social media. all of this would not have been possible without the activism of the outside groups, whether it is every towns, whether it is moms against guns. of course, the brady campaign, the leader of all of us in this, gabby gifford's group, the list goes on and on. i was on the phone with 100 of the groups on last sunday in preparation. >> leader pelosi, she has been up all night, she and many of her democratic colleagues on the house side. they staged the sit-in. 26 some hours. she is speaking since they decided to put the sit-in to a halt a litt

as i said at the beginning, they still are, called together by john lewis, john larson and led by our democratic whip, mr. hoyer. they have been in and out but, again, this is an echo. we are echoing each other. what we hope to do is create and echo chamber throughout america of a repeated message of no bill, no break. give us a vote. no more minutes of silence to pay our respects, of course, but it is not a substitute nor should it be considered one for action. a moment of silence, we want a moment of truth. we want a time of action to follow it. and so you heard the numbers, the statistics, the number of people who died. the solutions that are being proposed, it's just about the decision of the speaker of the house to allow a vote on the floor of the house. again, 85% to 90% of the american people support the background checks and the no fly, no buy -- no fly, no buy legislation. again, all day we'll be there as long as it takes every day. if they adjourn, we'll be here for pro forma and we'll be here in our districts, again, establishing the echo chamber. i think it's really import

israel: john lewis, david cicilline and john larson. the original plan was for us to end this portion of our activities and go to the whip's meeting. 24 hours later, we have 45 minutes that would like to speak and we would like to accommodate as many of the members as we can. so the leadership has suggested that we add an extra hour to this conversation, giving as many members as possible an opportunity to speak. we have to end by 12:30. at the same time, mr. hoyer is convening a whip's meeting and so members -- forgive my horse voice. i worked the night shift. members have the opportunity to go to the whip meeting which starts at 11:30. for those of you who are on the list, would like to stay here, we'll do the best we can to accommodate you. we are asking members to return to the floor at about 12:30 so that we can make the appropriate statements and demonstrations and then discuss next steps. so for those of you who are already on the list, we'll do the best we can to accommodate you. at 12:30, we won't be able to accommodate any oth

john larson of connecticut and katherine clark from massachusetts and john lewis started reaching out to members they thought might want to participate, and we actually had a meeting last night to kind of play out the scenario and figure out the logistics, so it -- it's pretty much an organic thing. this morning in our democratic caucus meeting leader pelosi talked about what we were doing and gave her implicit blessing to it and this encouraged a lot of other members to join in, so at one point i think we probably had about 70, 75 democrats sitting and standing in the well of the house and with the passion that you heard from john lewis. that was reflected in -- throughout the caucus, so we're prepared to be there for the duration. we go on break supposedly friday afternoon for next week, and -- and we're prepared to -- to do this until friday, and that's -- that's the derivation. no bill, no break chant. >> all right. so you're prepared to continue sitting. dozens have joined in as you pointed out. congressman jolley, before we get to the substance and i think you two are sort of on

lewis with the actions of katherine clark and david cicilline with the management of it all, by john larson all day, steve israel all night. with the periscope to give us access to the outside world or the access -- give them access to us. beto o'rourke, let's see. scott and mark takano. yeah, mark takano. so our members were very resourceful and that turned us up from a tree fallen in the wilderness that no one could hear, we'd just be talking to ourselves in the chamber, to 2.6 million contacts one way or another. technology has enabled us to communicate in social media. all of this would not have been possible without the activism of the outside groups, whether it's every town whether it's moms against guns, the of course the brady campaign, the, really, leader of all of this, gabby giffords' group. i was on the phone with a hundred of the groups last sunday in the preparation for the communication and activism we needed. so with that, i'd be pleased to take any questions you may have. if i don't associate your voice in your direction it's because i haven't been to sleep yet. did you get

this was john lewis and john larson and katherine clark and david sicilini.'t leadership-led. this was led by the members. that's what made it so true and so honest to the american people. >> i can tell you that millions of americans applaud what you guys did and hope you guys keep it going. we will watch july 5 and see how you keep it going. great to see you guys. glad you got some rest. >>> up next, should bernie sanders endorse hillary clinton? ? thanks for the ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say, geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico®. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. new mirafiber from the makers of miralax. fall in love with a new daily fiber. it's the only fiber that supports regularity with dailycomfort fiber. so unlike others, mirafiber is less likely to cause unwanted gas. love your fiber. new mirafiber. be the you who doesn't cover your modera

sit-in organized by john larson of connecticut and led by civil rights icon john lewis began before 11:30 yesterday morning and stretched into this morning. around last night paul ryan opened a new legislative day complete with pledge of allegiance and the house over chants of democrats completed the rest of the week's business, adjourned and now will not return until july 5th. that capped a dramatic day that began with a man who is no stranger to protest. >> newtown, charleston, orlando. what is the tipping point? are we blind? can we see? how many more mothers, how many more fathers need to share tears of grief before we do smomethin? we were led to lead, mr. speaker. we must be headlights, not taillights. we cannot continue to stick our heads in the sand and ignore the reality of mass gun violence in our nation. >> rise up, democrats. rise up, americans. this cannot stand. we will occupy this floor. we will no longer be denied a right to vote. >> just as the sit-in was beginning the house took a recess meaning the cameras under control by majority party were cut. democrats took the

but once again, i want to thank john larson, who as i said is still on the floor.e's done a great job tonight. >> thank you. i want to thank all of these members for the extraordinary effort that they have made. i want to mention one thing more that should not be missed tonight. in many ways, this fight on the floor, the request for these two bills is about the public safety. there was another bill that passed this night, not the gun bills that would have made people safer, but a bill that does not adequately or effectively deal with the zika crisis, another public health crisis that confronts our country. and the republicans brought to the floor a partisan bill reported out of conference committee with only republican signatories. reported out in an extraordinarily short period of time, 137-page conference report that nobody had the time to read and digest. and are sending it to a senate that will not pass it. so not only do we leave washington this night having failed to pass gun legislation which would make our people safer, but we've also failed to pass effecti

larson. hask you to john lewis who played such an important role today. massachusetts, cap a car, nice to see you. -- katherine clark, nice to see. i have been struck by how many of you have such personal stories of loss. all so much more real. after a number that week come back to the places in which these terrible times have taken place. a movie theater where any of us can imagine being. a workplace where we want our daughters and sons to go off and get jobs. in a church when so many spend sunday mornings. .n school i don't think there is a person in this room that can't have the heart to lose their 60. the lgbt community was having fun at a nightclub. we have heard over and over lost on aple are daily basis. my constituents get this and see this and are so dismayed that we do not act. when they ask me for that is the case, i hesitate to give any hope. it is a wonderful and to be here today and i would be able to say we are standing up and demand in action. i remember john lewis as we were reform anealth care important vote that we were taking and mr. l

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larson: lois fran tell, followed by frank morgan, followed by bobby rush, then debbie wasserman schultz, john sarbanes and steve israel. >> you saw the periscope feed from the house, that is being provided, we understand, by congressman scott peters' office from california. democrat from california. as the sit-in on the house floor approaches the 3 1/2 hour mark, started about 11:30 this morning. democrats seeking to bring gun legislation back to the house floor. going to take you back now live via periscope for more comments. >> listen, everybody wants to speak is going to get to speak. [applause] >> it's the joy of technology, really. it's frozen up a little bit. we'll go back to it live if you can. we'll go to your calls live, mike has been waiting theren the independent line. go ahead with your comments, mike. caller: i want to bring up the fact that i think one of the all st things almost americans would agree, the s -- m that the benefit without giving them opportunity. is ink what they need to do to have a period more realistic, 72 hour, give them the opportunity to go before the feder

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