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NRA Takes Congress
Dana Milbank:
"When he and his colleagues stepped off the elevator in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday morning and found TV cameras waiting in the hallway, LaPierre's bodyguards swung into action. One of them, in blatant violation of congressional rules, bumped and body-checked journalists out of the way so they couldn't film LaPierre or question him as he walked. 'You don't have jurisdiction here!' a cameraman protested as an NRA goon pushed him against a wall. After the melee, congressional officials informed the NRA officials that, in the halls of Congress, they had to follow congressional procedures -- which prohibit manhandling. This must have come as a surprise to the gun lobbyists, whose swagger seems to suggest that they are, in fact, in control of Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-at-hill-hearing-wayne-lapierre-tries-to-manhandle-facts-and-logic/2013/01/30/e31a305e-6b2e-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I had no idea.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Is he afraid??
hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)Why the hell didn't Capitol Police throw this vermin out?
patrice
(47,992 posts)for assault weapons, which Rand Paul was pushing during the 112th Congress and is now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022252598
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)I would.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)What a coward.