On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Thursday, June 23, 2016

‘No Bill, No Break’

This photo provided by Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine shows Democrat members of Congress, including, front row, from left, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Rep. Joe
Courtney, D-Conn., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., participate in sit-down protest seeking a a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, on the
floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    (Rep. Chellie Pingree via AP)

 Democrats Disrupt House, Stage Protest over Guns

MATTHEW DALY                   showed the protest. But in   aftermath of last week’s      than the children at Sandy    innocents. We are blind to
Associated Press               an unprecedented step, C-    massacre in Orlando, Flori-   Hook?” asked Rep. Mike        a crisis. Where is our cour-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re-          SPAN used live video feeds   da, that killed 49 people in  Thompson, D-Calif., re-       age?”
bellious Democrats shut        from one lawmaker’s Peri-    a gay nightclub.              ferring to the 2012 shoot-    Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J.,
down the House’s legisla-      scope account and an-        “No bill, no break,” shouted  ing that killed 26 people,    called Republicans “cow-
tive work on Wednesday,        other’s Facebook page to     Democrats, who demand-        including 20 elementary       ards.” Ryan dismissed the
staging a sit-in on the House  transmit words and images    ed that Speaker Paul Ryan,    school children, in New-      protest as “nothing more
floor and refusing to leave    from the House chamber.      R-Wis., keep the House in     town, Connecticut. “What      than a publicity stunt.” In
until they secured a vote      More than 200 Democrats      session through its planned   is so scary about having a    an interview with CNN, the
on gun control measures        led by Georgia Rep. John     break next week to vote on    vote?” Lewis, a veteran civ-  Speaker said the House
before lawmakers’ week-        Lewis demanded a vote on     gun legislation. Democrats    il rights leader, asked what  will not vote on a “bill that
long break.                    measures to expand back-     accused Republicans of        Congress has done, then       takes away a person’s due
Exasperated Republicans        ground checks and block      political cowardice by fail-  answered his own question:    process.”
were forced to recess while    gun purchases by some        ing to schedule a vote.       “Nothing. We have turned
cutting off cameras that       suspected terrorists in the  “Are they more afraid         a deaf ear to the blood of           Continued on Page 3