Hello and welcome to Buying New York, so to know Chip Chip podcast, we'd like to get

right into it and what we're going to get into today is a follow-up on that situation

in Tennessee, which you surely remember, in which a couple of members of the Tennessee

State House were expelled and later restored, and it set off this huge furor.

It was a big storm when this happened. What had happened was Republicans who have a huge

majority in the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Democratic members, and the reason

the members were expelled was that they had used a bullhorn to hijack and then occupy the House floor

in the middle of a noisy protest by anti-gun demonstrators. The floor of the House has galleries

up above on a higher floor, kind of like a mezzanine floor, where the public can watch what's going

on. The mezzanine was filled with very noisy demonstrators and the Democratic members kind of went

along with that to shut down the House. This happened on March 30th, brought the House to a

standstill. The members were whipping up the protesters in the gallery. The protesters

were calling for gun controls, all about guns, in light of the Covenant school shooting.

So it took about after the sit-in, the occupation takeover started, took nearly an hour for

order to be restored and for the House to resume its session. So the House ground to a halt

while these Democratic members with their bullhorn took over. Okay, now

Republicans do have this huge majority, 75 to 24. I mean, that's pretty significant majority.

So when it was all over, the majority proposed a resolution to expel three members of the

of the House, three Democrats who had come down to the well with the bullhorn and taken over.

The majority gave the accused members a chance to make their case, defend themselves,

then they held a vote. And two of them, not three, two, were expelled. The two parties is important.

Now, Republicans had the authority to do what they did. There's just no doubt at all. The Tennessee

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