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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/silence_liz.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US Senate Votes to Silence Lawmaker Elizabeth Warren' data-article-id='2194'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9167'>The Twitter hashtag #LetLizSpeak was trending on social media Wednesday.</span> <span data-start-time='9167' data-end-time='19604'>And over 6 million people saw a video from Elizabeth Warren, a member of the United States Senate.</span> <span data-start-time='19604' data-end-time='25146'>She posted her video on Facebook Tuesday night.</span> <span data-start-time='25146' data-end-time='32333'>Warren is a member of the Democratic Party from Massachusetts.</span> <span data-start-time='32333' data-end-time='37604'>And Liz is a nickname for Elizabeth.</span> <span data-start-time='37604' data-end-time='50875'>On Tuesday, the Senate was considering whether to approve Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican, as the next U.S. Attorney General.</span> <span data-start-time='50875' data-end-time='57708'>Sessions is President Donald Trump’s choice for the position.</span> <span data-start-time='57708' data-end-time='67292'>The attorney general is a member of the president’s cabinet and heads the Department of Justice.</span> <span data-start-time='67292' data-end-time='77604'>During the Senate debate on Sessions’ nomination, Warren read a letter written by Coretta Scott King.</span> <span data-start-time='77604' data-end-time='84771'>King was the wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King [Junior].</span> <span data-start-time='84771' data-end-time='100146'>She wrote the letter in 1986, when Sessions, then a lawyer for the federal government, was being considered for a federal court judgeship.</span> <span data-start-time='100146' data-end-time='109146'>Tuesday night, Warren was reading Coretta Scott King’s letter aloud on the Senate floor. </span> <span data-start-time='109146' data-end-time='123104'>King wrote that Sessions used his power in Alabama to “chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens...”</span> <span data-start-time='123104' data-end-time='130354'>That is when Senator Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, intervened.</span> <span data-start-time='130354' data-end-time='139667'>He warned Warren that Senate rules bar one senator from speaking badly about another.</span> <span data-start-time='139667' data-end-time='144750'>Warren was permitted to continue reading the letter.</span> <span data-start-time='144750' data-end-time='157208'>But she was stopped again, this time by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.</span> <span data-start-time='157208' data-end-time='162729'>Warren was told she could not continue reading the letter.</span> <span data-start-time='162729' data-end-time='175604'>She said, “I am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate.”</span> <span data-start-time='175604' data-end-time='182583'>Warren asked to continue speaking, but her appeal was rejected.</span> <span data-start-time='182583' data-end-time='194375'>A majority of senators voted to bar her from speaking about Sessions until after his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.</span> <span data-start-time='194375' data-end-time='202396'>Warren left the Senate floor, went to a nearby room and continued reading the letter.</span> <span data-start-time='202396' data-end-time='206917'>She posted the video to her Facebook page.</span> <span data-start-time='206917' data-end-time='214875'>By Wednesday afternoon, the 15-minute video received over 400,000 comments.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/silence_liz.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8090 data-hint-location='123104' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/what_does_intervene_mean.m4a'>What does intervene mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='to modify or hinder'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/to_encourage.m4a'><span>to encourage</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/to_allow_to_continue.m4a'><span>to allow to continue</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/to_make_a_speech.m4a'><span>to make a speech</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/to_modify_or_hinder.m4a'><span>to modify or hinder</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8091 data-hint-location='182583' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/when_was_she_allowed_to_speak.m4a'>When was she allowed to speak?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='after the hearing'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/on_the_internet.m4a'><span>on the internet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/in_the_hallway.m4a'><span>in the hallway</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/after_the_hearing.m4a'><span>after the hearing</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/during_the_debate.m4a'><span>during the debate</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=8092 data-hint-location='67292' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/during_the_debate_warren__blank_.m4a'>During the debate, Warren <span class='blank'>read a letter</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='read a letter'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/make_a_phone_call.m4a'><span>make a phone call</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/read_a_letter.m4a'><span>read a letter</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/obstruct.m4a'><span>obstruct</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1676/vote.m4a'><span>vote</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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