California Senator Removed After Criticizing Late Lawmaker

California Senator Removed After Criticizing Late Lawmaker | U.S. News | US News: "SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker was removed from the state Senate floor after refusing to stop delivering a speech criticizing late state Sen. Tom Hayden for his leadership role in the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s.
Republican Sen. Janet Nguyen lived in South Vietnam as a child and fled with her family when its U.S.-backed government fell.
...Several sergeants-at-arms surrounded Nguyen and gently nudged her toward the door.
Nguyen dodged them and continued yelling passages from her speech for nearly a minute as the presiding Democrat repeatedly told her to stop.
"I have every right to speak on behalf of the 500,000" Vietnamese-Americans living in California, Nguyen yelled before leaving the chamber as another senator said her comments were disrespectful and inappropriate.
Nguyen represents a portion of Orange County known as Little Saigon, home to the largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam.
...Hayden was a student radical in the 1960s and helped organize protests against the war.
...On Thursday, Nguyen began her speech in Vietnamese before switching to English.
When Majority Leader Bill Monning said she was speaking out of order, her microphone was shut off. 
She kept speaking as the presiding Democrat, Sen. Ricardo Lara of Bell Gardens, repeatedly told her to take her seat and eventually ordered her removed.
According to a written copy of Nguyen's speech provided by her office, she planned to say that Hayden "sided with a communist government that enslaved and/or killed millions of Vietnamese, including members of my own family."