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A Democratic sit-in on the floor of the US House of Representatives to force a vote on gun controls spilled into a second day in the face of Republican efforts to end the protest and take back control of the chamber.
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"We’re going to stay here as long as it takes," Seth Moulton, a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, told television channel MSNBC last night.
WASHINGTON — Democratic House members staged a sit-in yesterday to dramatically press their demand for votes on gun restrictions before next week’s break, drawing a rebuke from House Speaker Paul Ryan, who called it “nothing more than a publicity stunt.”
Members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead held an hour-long candlelight vigil Sunday night a week after the Orlando massacre, but they first held signs outside the Community Center calling for gun-control legislation in the United States and peace and love in the world.
In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton says the U.S. must determine the military and political outcome in Iraq and Syria.
You can watch the full interview here: CNN
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Seth Moulton (D-Salem) has joined House Democrats in saying they won't leave the floor until House Republicans agree to take a vote on gun control measures.\
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Moulton, who represents Marblehead, joins Massachusetts Congressional Representatives Jim McGovern, Bill Keating, Joseph P. Kennedy III and Katherine Clark who all took part in the sit-in.\
By: Evan Lips
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, the first-term Democrat from Salem and veteran of the Iraq War, has endeared himself to national anti-gun activists after taking a hard line against the sale of semiautomatic weapons to civilians. Days after a gunman slaughtered 49 innocents in the name of Islam at an Orlando gay bar, Moulton graced the front page of the New York Daily News — clad in full military gear.
Three House Democrats are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to meet the administration's stated goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. before October. "This need has never been more urgent. As a result of the Syrian civil war, more than 400,000 civilians have been killed, and more than 4.8 million people have been forced to flee their homes," wrote Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) in a Monday letter.