U.S. Democrats in House hold hours-long protest for gun control bills

Image Courtesy of John Yarmuth/Twitter
Image Courtesy of John Yarmuth/Twitter

By The Associated Press, June 22, 2016 

Democrats shout over Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan when he calls items to order

A drained and dwindling group of Democrats, some draped in blankets and toting pillows, carried their remarkable House floor sit-in past daybreak Thursday, disrupting the business of Congress in the wake of the Orlando shooting rampage with demands for gun-control votes in an extraordinary scene of protest broadcast live to the world.

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