*Source: Reuters
(Reuters)
- A House of Representatives stenographer who was pulled from the
chamber ranting about Freemasons during this week's vote on raising the
U.S. debt ceiling said on Friday she "couldn't be better" when asked how
she was feeling after the outburst.
In a brief phone interview, the
stenographer, 48-year-old Dianne Reidy, declined to comment on what
motivated her to stand up on the House floor on Wednesday night and make
comments including: "The greatest deception here is this is not one
nation under God. It never was."
Reached
at her Maryland home on Friday, Reidy declined to elaborate on her
comments, saying: "It's not where I'm going, it's where God's going."
Reidy
was hauled off the House floor during Wednesday night's vote to end the
federal government shutdown and increase the U.S. borrowing authority.
She was interviewed by Capitol Police officers and taken to a hospital
for a brief evaluation.
Her
husband, Dan Reidy, told the New York Post that his wife had been
working extremely long hours and having a hard time sleeping during the
16-day shutdown.
"Two weeks, waking up in the middle of the night," Reidy told the Post. "She's like, 'I can't sleep, God's got me in the work.'"
Freemasons
are a centuries-old fraternal organization. Several of the country's
founders, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Paul
Revere, were Freemasons.
Officials with the House Office of the Clerk did not immediately respond to questions regarding Reidy's employment status.
(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Editing by Eric Beech)
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