House Speaker Paul Ryan promised Thursday to quickly restore order to the House floor, where Democrats are in the second day of a sit-in that has halted legislative business.

“Democrats can talk all they want,” Ryan said, adding that he won’t turn the lights off in the chamber the way Democrats did to Republicans in 2008.

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