Sit In On House Floor

A group of roughly 60 legislators sat down cross legged in the middle of the house floor wednesday pushing for gun control votes.

Sit in on house floor.

By jennifer bendery and sam stein washington democrats literally sat down on the floor of the house chamber on wednesday and forced the house into a temporary recess as part of an effort to compel republican leadership to vote on gun control legislation. With the republican and democratic conventions on the horizon and with black protest perhaps brewing again the sit in on the house floor for gun legislation is a reminder of lewis s involvement in. Ditto for taking photos and video in the chamber. Some remained standing on the floor.

Georgia congressman john lewis deployed a strategy from his days as a civil rights activist and coupled it with social media to stage a dramatic sit in wednesday on the house floor with his fellow.