On Friday, Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu of California aired audio on the House floor of sobbing children in a detention center crying out for their parents.
He was quickly gaveled by the presiding officer, Rep. Karen Handel, R-Ga., who told him to stop playing the audio because it was against House rules.
Lieu responded that Americans need to hear the tape.
The dramatic audio, first reported by ProPublica and later provided to The Associated Press, roiled the national debate over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” approach to border crossings. The policy has resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their parents.
Within a minute, Lieu yielded back his time and the audio was cut off.
2300 kids were ripped away from parents with no real plan to reunite them. I can't play the @ProPublica audio of their cries for help because of "decorum"? F*ck decorum. @realDonaldTrump engaged in the functional equivalent of kidnapping. The American people need to hear this. https://t.co/x47nAebmDZ
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 22, 2018
(AP)
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2 Responses
Had it not been for the the evil vile policy of this administration, there wouldn’t have been anything to play.
rt,
The “evil vile policy of this administration” is just a continuation of the policies of the obama administration only with some compassion.
You say that if you don’t like a policy , go ahead and break a law?
Now I know you’re a died in the wool democRAT.