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Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. John Lewis Host Sit-In on Capitol Steps to Protest Health Care Bill
On Monday night, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) sat down on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to host a sit-in to protest the health care bill the Senate is currently debating. The Better Care Reconciliation Act was recently revealed after being kept tightly under wraps…
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6 NAACP Members Arrested in Protest of Jeff Sessions Bid for US Attorney General
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest the nomination of Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. According to CNN, five men and one woman, including NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The protesters…
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‘Enough Is Enough’: House Dems Stage Sit-in on Floor of Congress Over Guns
At noon Wednesday, members of the House shut it down—all the way down. In a historic act of protest, Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives refused to observe the regular order of the House, staging a sit-in protest over the lack of legislation on gun control. The protest Wednesday occurred after House Republicans…