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It is the best way to get that across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility,
Green said of Trump
We’re going back to a 1950s America,
she warnedI got to say, as a new member of Congress, I was shocked at what seemed like a blatant disrespect for the House, and it wasn’t coming from Rep. Green. It was coming from the men behind him on the right side who were telling him and yelling, ‘Sit down!’ I mean, it felt like I was watching something in a history class of racist yelling at an elderly Black man challenging the President of the United States not to cut medical care for the sick,
she said
Well look, the bottom line is lots of people are frustrated, but the best way to protest what Trump is doing what we are doing and many senators and many congressmen are doing and that is organizing against these horrible policies of making — of calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme and then cutting, slashing people’s Social Security offices,
Schumer replied
Well let me ask a different way. Would you rather see Democrats more in line with what Sen. Elissa Slotkin was saying or more in line with what Congressman Al Green and people holding signs in the audience were doing last night
Berman asked SchumerMembers are engaging in willful and continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session,
House Speaker Mike Johnson said in response to the jeers from the crowdYou called it nasty. It was like four minutes into the speech when Congressman Al Green was yelling at the podium, and he was escorted out. What was going through your head as you heard the congressman yelling?"
CNN anchor John Berman asked Schumer on WednesdayThe Speaker shall preserve order and decorum and, in the case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the gallery or in the lobby, may cause the same to be cleared."
The Rules of the House of Representatives states
You, you lie!"
Greene shoutedThis president is unfit. He should not hold the office—34 felony convictions, two times impeached,
Green addedBut we couldn't allow that on the House floor,
he added
I think what Al Green did was despicable. I liked Elissa Slotkin’s speech. I think that’s where Democrats should go,
Axelrod said during a Tuesday CNN appearance
You have no mandate" at the president
He stood up at the beginning of Trump's speech and yelled
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation,
Trump saidMembers are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions,
Johnson said
I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing I can do,
Trump saidI knew that I was, that I was a person of conscience, as am I, and I knew that the president has done things that I think we cannot allow to continue."
Asked if he had planned to heckle Trump, Green saidRemove this gentleman from the chamber,
the speaker said, drawing raucous cheers from the Republicans in attendanceI'll accept the punishment,
Green said after his removalI could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded,
the president said