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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Wed Jan 16, 2019, 04:17 PM Jan 2019

-- more than a half dozen House freshmen (including @aoc) have come over here and come into the senat

I have no idea what is going on.

Seung Min Kim
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I wish you could snap photos in the Senate chamber — more than a half dozen House freshmen (including @aoc) have come over here and come into the senate floor. But there are no others senators around, unclear what the frosh will do now
1:41 PM - 16 Jan 2019

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-- more than a half dozen House freshmen (including @aoc) have come over here and come into the senat (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2019 OP

All meeting with donors instead of doing the nations business? pwb Jan 2019 #1

It was always my understanding....... WillowTree Jan 2019 #2

Who let them on the floor? manor321 Jan 2019 #3

pwb

(11,276 posts)

1. All meeting with donors instead of doing the nations business?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2019, 04:36 PM

Jan 2019

Is my guess. They should all have to sit in their seats and govern.

WillowTree

(5,325 posts)

2. It was always my understanding.......

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2019, 04:36 PM

Jan 2019

.......that only senators and Senate Staff are allowed on the Senate floor. (Notwithstanding the new rule that allows Senators to bring babies under the age of 1 into the chamber with them when necessary.)

manor321

(3,344 posts)

3. Who let them on the floor?

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2019, 04:37 PM

Jan 2019

I didn't know House members could just go on the Senate floor and vice versa.

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