President Biden welcomed three Democratic Tennessee lawmakers to the White House Monday, weeks after they faced expulsion votes for disrupting legislative proceedings by staging a pro-gun control d…
on April 6 for their “disorderly behavior” and improper display of political messages. Johnson, 60, who is white, survived the expulsion resolution against her by one vote. days later and plan to run in forthcoming special elections to finish out their terms.
“What the Republican legislature did was shocking, it was undemocratic and without any precedent but you turned it around very quickly,” Biden said Monday. During the meeting, the president touted his record on gun control while in politics, including his signing last year of a bill expanding background checks and providing federal funding for so-called red flag laws and his work as a senator securing the passage of the 1994 ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Outside the West Wing after the meeting, Jones described seeing busts of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office, describing them as people who “acted outside of the political paradigm of what was possible, and they changed political realities.”
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