Protesters flood the Senate, calling for a delay in voting on the GOP tax plan until new Alabama Senator Doug Jones is seated

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When Massachusetts GOP Senator Scott Brown was elected in a 2010 special
election, Senate Democrats agreed to delay a key vote on health care
reform until he could be seated, so that the vote would be held by
elected officials, not the appointed lame duck who was sitting in the
seat that Brown was about to occupy.

Now, Democrats and activists are calling on the GOP to preserve this
democratic fundamental and delay an upcoming vote on the GOP tax plan
until newly elected Alabama Senator Doug Jones can replace the appointed
lame duck Luther Strange in the Senate.

The GOP will almost certainly tell Democrats to go fuck themselves,
despite their insistence on observing the imaginary rule that allowed
them to steal Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court seat and hand it to one of
the minor characters from The Handmaid’s Tale.

So protestors have flooded the Senate, chanting “No Jones, no vote!”

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