It was late in the afternoon in the Capitol, shortly before a vote to condemn President Trump’s recent tweets as racist, when the House descended into turmoil over whether the speaker could say so out loud on the floor. The drama unfolded in slow motion, with Democrats and Republicans stuck at their seats for more than an hour as top lawmakers awaited a ruling on whether it was a violation of precedent to call out the president for saying that four nonwhite Democrats should “go back” to unspecified countries.

Source: Wall Street Journal July 17, 2019 01:30 UTC