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Last edited Wed Jun 22, 2016, 07:24 PM - Edit history (1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_NolanA speech that will go down in the history of the US House!
Clamoring for video now...
On edit: WTF???? Someone put their hand in front of the camera and the feed went dead!!!!!!
On edit again: The C-Span feed is NOT the official one. What we're watching on C-Span is a Periscope feed from Rep Scott Peters (D-CA). There is no official feed from the House because they are technically "in recess".
Here's an explanation of it from earler today:
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)by people I've never heard of before today.
oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)more than they protect humans. Major kudos to Rick Nolan and all the Dems for this historic move.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)We have firearm-control laws that protect wildlife (which is very good, of course) but does NOT protect humans!!!
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It looks like *someone* is trying to knock out the camera feed, too! The camera keeps "falling over". I want to know the backstory of THAT!!
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)They are going to try every trick in the book to stop this. I sure hope they don't succeed.
Dayum the asshats!
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)..."mysteriously" keeps falling over.
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)I need to get back to watching. I doubt there is anything "mysterious" about it. Cooley.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...so Rep Scott Peters is broadcasting it via the Periscope app, and C-Span is showing it.
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)This is historic.
BainsBane
(53,003 posts)and immediately understood why he was one of the few Democrats in MN facing a tight re-election.
I have not seen his speech today. I don't have cable so haven't been able to watch any of the proceedings on congress.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)BainsBane
(53,003 posts)I'd like to see it.
malaise
(267,825 posts)Hopefully CSpan is saving it - he was brilliant the duck has more rights than kids