4th District Congressman Jim Himes left the House floor during the traditional moment of silence Monday night to honor 49 people who died in an attack at an Orlando nightclub.

In a series of tweets Sunday, Himes said the silence doesn't honor victims, but mocks them.  He calls the observances an ``abomination'' and says he will not be silent. 

Himes shared similar sentiments on the House floor Monday afternoon.  "Silence, that is how the leadership of the most powerful country in the world will respond to this week's massacre of its citizens." 

If the Congress had a single moral fiber, he said they would force themselves to get to know the slaughtered innocents, cut short by a fetish to meet bloody tragedy with silence.  Himes said not him, not anymore.  He said he will no longer stand there absorbing the faux concern, contrived gravity and tepid smugness of a House complicit in the weekly bloodshed. 

Sooner or later, Himes says the country will hold members accountable for their inaction.  He said to his colleagues that as they bow their heads and think about what to say to their God when asked what they did to slow the slaughter of innocents, there will be silence.