U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, took the House floor Wednesday afternoon, more than five hours into a Democratic sit-in demanding a vote on gun control measures following the Orlando ...

Tensions between Democrats and Republicans reached a boiling point late Wednesday night, with one GOP lawmaker getting into a shouting match over a sit-in aimed at forcing votes on gun control ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, led his like-minded colleagues in a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives. Lewis and his supporters sat in protest of ...

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4TH UPDATE, 10 AM: House Democrats’ sit-in is coming to a close. “John Lewis and I started out this journey on October 1960 seeking the right to vote,” Rep James Clyburn (D-SC) said in the hall. “Here ...

Democrats decided to end their day-long sit-in protest on the House floor over gun control Thursday. Rep. John Lewis, who launched the sit-in Wednesday morning that eventually drew 170 lawmakers, lit ...

Democratic Rep. John Lewis is sitting back down. This time, he’s on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand action on gun control legislation. “We’re going to continue to sit in and sit ...

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis has faced angry mobs hurling racial epithets, jail and a beating by cops wielding night sticks that was so brutal that his skull was fractured. So, a few hours on the ...