{"id":251398,"date":"2016-06-22T18:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-house-dems-hold-sit-in-to-force-voting-on-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2016-06-22T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T22:21:29","slug":"us-house-dems-hold-sit-in-to-force-voting-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-house-dems-hold-sit-in-to-force-voting-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"US House Dems hold sit-in to force voting on gun-control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79\">\n<p><strong>A group of Democrats in the US House of Representatives have staged a sit-in on the House floor to garner support for a bipartisan bill on gun-control\u00a0in the wake of the country\u2019s deadliest shooting in Orlando, Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;no fly, no gun&#8221; bill would ban suspected terrorists on the government\u2019s no-fly list from buying guns.<\/p>\n<p>The two-dozen-strong group of lawmakers, led by Georgia Representative John Lewis, sat down on the floor and started chanting \u201cNo bill, no break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on Wednesday morning, Lewis said that he was pushing for a cause that was supported by the majority of American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive us a vote; let us vote; we came here to o our job, we came here to work!\u201d he said. \u201cThe American people are demanding action. Do we have the courage; do we have the raw courage to make at least a down payment on ending gun violence in America?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZq2F9LcUrI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The sit-in sent the House into recess after the Democrats refused to get up from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/06\/22\/471688\/Orlando-John-Lewis-sitin-US-House\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Democrats in the US House of Representatives have staged a sit-in on the House floor to garner support for a bipartisan bill on gun-control\u00a0in the wake of the country\u2019s deadliest shooting in Orlando, Florida. The so-called &#8220;no fly, no gun&#8221; bill would ban suspected terrorists on the government\u2019s no-fly list from buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}