Woman Who Had Religious Moment in Congress

Remember the stenographer who grabbed a microphone during Congressional budget battles last fall?

She stood up and she started talking about how God won't be mocked and had to be led out of the room.

Well, here she is and she is telling the REST OF THE STORY.

The House stenographer removed from the chamber floor last fall after grabbing a microphone and talking about God is attempting to clarify her actions in a video obtained exclusively by Fox News in which she says she didn’t “lose her mind” or “have a breakdown.”

The clerk, Dianne Reidy, made the remarks in her first public statement since the Oct. 17, 2013, incident that brought a bizarre end to the televised vote to reopen the government after a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.

The YouTube video features Reidy’s explanation about taking the turned-off microphone from the reading clerk’s lectern on the dais of the House chamber.

Reidy, who has since been fired, says that the spirit of the Lord spoke through her, telling her in advance that she was going to speak somewhere in the House chamber during the big vote.

The 38-minute video -- titled “Dianne’s Testimony” -- shows Reidy and husband Dan sitting on a couch with a single page of notes.

Dan speaks for the first several minutes, citing Galatians 6:7 and Mark 3:25 in the Bible. He also says the video is to “explain what took place in Dianne’s life and our lives last fall.”

They acknowledge the difficulty in finding video or audio tape to clarify what Reidy said inside the chamber because the microphones are off during a vote. But the Reidys’ video include video captured in the hall apparently by the Chicago Sun-Times in which most of her rant can be heard.


“I remember getting up to the podium and after saying, ‘God will not be mocked.’ I don’t have a memory of anything else that was said that evening until I was escorted off the floor,” Reidy says in the video. “I knew that God was going to speak through me, and I knew it was going to be during the vote, raising the debt ceiling level and ending the government shutdown.”

See it here;  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/16/house-clerk-who-had-religious-moment-during-government-shutdown-vote-tries-to/

It will be interesting to see if this was an ominous message delivered by a faithful servant....only time will tell.

Hat tip to Mick L.