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House Stenographer Yanked from Chamber Ranting About God, Freemasons

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GETTY 101613 CapitolNIght?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1381982304518Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A House stenographer was pulled out of the House chamber while shouting into the microphone during Wednesday’s vote on a compromise bill to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit.

The woman was Dianne Reidy, an official reporter with the Office of the Clerk, two sources told ABC News.

She was heard shouting “the House is divided,” according to one source. She was pulled off the rostrum by chamber security staff.

“He will not be mocked,” the woman said, according to an audio recording of the incident. “This is not one nation under God. It never was.”

“The greatest deception here is this is not one nation under God! It never was. Had it been, it would not have been! The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons!” she added.

The incident caused a moment of chaos in the chamber as the presiding member, Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen, R-Fla., repeatedly banged the gavel, trying to restore order.

According to the Washington Post, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., expressed “sympathy” for the stenographer, “because something clearly happened there.”

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