APIn this image from House Television, with partial voting totals on the screen, a woman, at the rostrum just below the House presiding officer, seen between the 'yea' and 'nay' in a white shirt, is removed from the chamber after she began shouting.
Just when the day couldn't get any crazier...
A ranting woman unleashed a bizarre tirade on the House floor Wednesday night, as the chamber hurriedly voted to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government.
'He will not be mocked, he will not be mocked,' the raving woman - reportedly House stenographer Diane Reidy - screamed.
'This is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been... the Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons, they go against God,' she said, according to a Public Radio International reporter on hand.
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'You cannot serve two masters,' she said.
'Praise be to GOD!' House stenographer Diane Reidy is rushed off the floor and into an elevator...
- Todd Zwillich (@toddzwillich) October 17, 2013
Security officers quickly escorted the woman out.
The bizarre outburst came as Congress passed an eleventh hour deal to avert a first-ever default by the U.S. government on its debts.
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The bill, which was passed earlier Wednesday by the Senate, now heads to President Obama, who has vowed to sign the bill into law
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