Within minutes, reporters, staff members and Assembly members rushed to the Senate, crowding the chamber floor.
But later, all Democrats present in its senate walked off the chamber floor in protest during the debate in protest.
They were more human and likable down in the guts of the building than on the chamber floor, onstage, often posturing before the C-SPAN cameras.
During a late-night budget adoption session, Mr. Fiala said, Ms. López broke down on the chamber floor, saying that she never thought she would miss a Republican.
Altman had been on the chamber floor himself, walking toward the Speaker, when Askew, in the balcony, began unloading rounds from his.40-calibre pistol.
Protesting senators and deputies play cards and chess, tell yarns and sing songs until all hours of the night, before retiring in sleeping bags on the chamber floor.
Officer Burt was on his second or third week as the security detail for Speaker Gifford Miller, and was on the chamber floor one story below.
(By the way, the Scottish site provides a live audio feed from the chamber floor, even when there is no one in the room. Now that's open government).
MPs voted in favour of the motion by acclamation, meaning that there was no opposition from parliamentarians on the chamber floor when the speaker put it to them.
On the chamber floor, it was nearly impossible to hear them — Republican lawmakers rose from their seats and applauded, drowning out the protesters as they were rushed out by state troopers.
In a roughly 15-minute speech from the chamber floor, he channeled his inner Mark Twain and called for the lawmakers to come together to create jobs and address the government's long-term fiscal problems.
