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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016
Democrats disrupt House, stage protest over guns
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Rebel-
lious Democrats staged an
extraordinary all-day sit-in on
the House loor Wednesday to
demand votes on gun-control
bills, shouting down Speaker
Paul Ryan when he attempted
to restore order as their protest
stretched into the night.
The stunning and unruly
scene was broadcast live to
the world from Democrats’
cell phones, feeds picked up
by C-SPAN after Republi-
cans shut down the network’s
cameras.
The sit-in was well into its
10th hour, with Democrats
camped out on the loor stop-
ping legislative business in the
House, when Ryan stepped to
the podium to gavel the House
into session and hold votes on
routine business. Angry Dem-
ocrats chanted “No bill, no
break!” and waved pieces of
paper with the names of gun
victims, continuing their protest
in the well of the House even as
lawmakers voted on a previ-
ously scheduled and unrelated
measure to overturn a veto by
President Barack Obama.
Ryan attempted to ignore
the outbursts and announce
the business of the day, pound-
ing down his gavel over shout-
ing. “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
Democrats yelled, but Ryan
left the lectern and the vot-
ing continued. Then Demo-
crats began singing “We Shall
Overcome,” still holding up
the names of gun victims.
The scene presented a rad-
ical, almost shocking depar-
ture from the normal orderly
conduct of the House. It was
uncertain what would hap-
pen as the night stretched
on. Republicans planned to
attempt to adjourn the House,
and hoped to present them-
selves as soberly attending to
business and Democrats as
disruptive. Democrats said
they would stay until Republi-
cans yielded to their demands
to hold votes on bills to
strengthen background checks
and prevent people on the no
ly list from getting guns in the
wake of last week’s massacre
in Orlando, Florida.
The protest included Ore-
Rep. Chillie Pingree via AP
This photo provided by Rep. Chillie Pingree, D-Maine,
shows Democrat members of Congress, including Rep.
John Lewis, D-Ga., center, and Rep. Elizabeth Esty,
D-Conn. as they participate in sit-down protest seeking a
a vote on gun control measures, Wednesday on the floor
of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington.
gon Reps. Suzanne Bonamici,
Earl Blumenaer and Peter
DeFazio, as well as Sens. Ron
Wyden and Jeff Merkley.
“There is so much we
can do to address gun vio-
lence, Bonamici said. “It’s not
thoughts and prayers. It’s not
moments of silence. We’ve
done enough of that. Our con-
stituents today are looking
at us and saying please take
action.
“Let’s do this for the fami-
lies of the victims in the Pulse
Nightclub in Orlando. Let’s do
this for the victims of Aurora.
For the victims of Colum-
bine, of Umpqua Commu-
nity College, of Clackamas
Town Center in Oregon,” she
added. “Let’s do this not only
for the families of the victims,
but for the future. For our kids.
Enough is enough.”
“Are they more afraid than
the children at Sandy Hook?”
asked Rep. Mike Thompson,
D-Calif., referring to the 2012
shooting that killed 26 peo-
ple, including 20 elementary
school children, in Newtown,
Connecticut. “What is so scary
about having a vote?”
Ryan dismissed the protest
as “nothing more than a pub-
licity stunt,” and in an inter-
view with CNN, made clear
there would be no vote.
“We’re not going to take
away a citizen’s constitutional
rights without due process,” he
said.
The protest began around
11:30 a.m., interrupted briely
when Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas,
tried to start the House’s work
at noon. The customary prayer
and Pledge of Allegiance went
ahead, but Poe was forced to
recess the House when dozens
of Democrats refused to leave
the well.
By evening, 168 House
Democrats — out of 188 —
and 34 Senate Democrats
joined the protest, according
to the House minority leader’s
ofice. One after another, they
spoke of the need for gun con-
trol and talked of constituents
who had been killed.
Scattered around the House
loor were signs reading “Dis-
arm Hate.” Visitors watched
from the galleries. A crowd of
several hundred gun control
advocates gathered outside the
Capitol and cheered as Demo-
crats addressed them.
Congress remains grid-
locked over gun control, a
divide even more pronounced
in a presidential election year.
The sit-in had the feel of a
1960s-style protest, as some
lawmakers sat on the loor,
others in their seats.
Pot: As of June 21, there
were 723 applications to
grow the plant in Oregon
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department might have to
put an asterisk beside the
pot crop value in its annual
report. “We will have sales
numbers, but I don’t know
how we would report it,” he
said.
Oregon crop statistics
from 2014 list cattle and
calves as the state’s top agri-
cultural product, at $922
million value. Greenhouse
and nursery plants was sec-
ond at $829 million, and hay
was third, at $703 million.
Seth Crawford, an Ore-
gon State University sociol-
ogy professor who teaches
a pot policy class, esti-
mated in 2015 that Ore-
gon’s marijuana crop had an
annual value approaching $1
billion.
Meanwhile, the OLCC
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applications as entrepre-
neurs seek opportunities
in the state’s recreational
cannabis market.
As of June 21, there were
723 applications to grow
pot in Oregon. Of those,
122 were in Jackson County
and 91 were in neighboring
Josephine County. South-
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the state’s cannabis produc-
tion hotbed, legal or ille-
gal. The tri-county Portland
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Clackamas and Washington
counties, accounted for 250
of the license applications.
Of processing facilities,
25 of the 82 license applica-
tions were from Multnomah
County, as were 69 of 193
retail outlet applications.
The state also received
applications from seven test-
ing labs, 57 wholesalers and
one research facility.
Some licenses have
been approved, many oth-
ers are in draft form or are
being reviewed for land-
use compliance by local
governments.
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