Pelosi demands microphone after muting GOP in 2008

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called on Speaker Paul Ryan to “turn on this microphone” on the House floor, which was shut off after Democrats broke the rules by taking over the chamber earlier in the day.

“This is a courtesy that we ask,” Pelosi said in the chamber.

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