"Senate Democrats shut down this government, and now Senate Democrats need to open this government back up," Ryan said in a midday speech.
Critics accused him of overstepping his authority, and school districts in some areas decided not to provide their students access to his midday speech.
Natalia, a representative of the separatist movement who sneaked into the factory to listen to the midday speech, described the Akhmetov-backed protest as a "clown show" and said she was confident that the armed uprising would continue.
"While this war is difficult, it is not endless," he said in a midday speech in the main hall of the White House, where he also announced that he will cut future Army combat tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months.
Mr. McCain, the Arizona Republican who was Mr. Bush's most potent primary challenger in 2000 and is still a political wild card, set out his ideas in a midday speech at the National Press Club that harked back to the populist tones of his presidential campaign.
Sharpton used his midday speech to denounce both St . Louis CountyProsecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and the media, but not before an unidentified man could accuse Sharpton of unnecessarily involving himself as an "agitator" in the fallout from the case.
