Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
In Southeast Asia, the floor of the legislatures sometimes break out in fistfights, people throwing chairs, and general pandemonium. C-SPAN could turn that into a PPV event.![]()
Originally posted by: K1052
The years leading up to the U.S. civil war got very interesting in Congress.
Charles Sumner (Senator from Mass.) was badly beaten by Preston Brooks (Senator from South Carolina) with a cane. After that many members supposedly carried concealed pistols and knifes.