That's because House Republicans presiding over the floor at the time gaveled the Congress on a break as the sit-in started.
The sit-in started shortly after 12 30 p.m. when 12 protesters sat on the floor in front of the glass doors of the mayor's office, declaring the area "Rahm's psych ward".
The sit-in started around midday on Wednesday – and though the House officially adjourned for recess at 3.19am on Thursday, with a Republican-backed funding vote on Zika – a handful of haggard Democrats have stayed on.
The sit-in started after a coalition of Salafis (conservative Islamists) and secular revolutionaries marched from a moribund Tahrir Square rally to the gates of the Defense Ministry early in the morning of April 29th.
When sit-ins started at the Pearl Roundabout, Bahrain's revolutionary hub and answer to Cairo's Tahrir Square, both Sunnis and Shiites turned up in droves.
A sit-in started, someone pushed someone, and the scene became very violent very quickly.
Incredibly, just before she started the sit-in at MoMA, she began divorce proceedings from her then-husband, Paolo Canevari, the Italian artist.
That was in July 1958, two years before students in Greensboro, N.C., staged the sit-ins that are often credited with starting the movement in many Southern cities. Every morning for three weeks, the protesters in Wichita returned to the drugstore, sitting silently until closing time, despite constant taunting.
We know that if the friend in Pinter's play were to walk onto the stage, sit in the vacant chair, and start speaking, that logic would be interrupted and the speaker's authority questioned.
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"There is the option to sit in at the start and be pushed by the other guys, who will just jump in behind me," revealed Jackson.
