Remember - there was about a 5-10 minute period where Senators were stuck on the Senate floor, with rioters in the hallways, before they were then taken to a secure location. It could have been a disaster.
Senators evacuating
Swalwell to Senators about their evacuation: "You know how close you came to the mob." Senators are walking from right to left. Trump supporters are just in the background.
Schumer and his detail running away after almost walking into a group of rioters deep inside the Capitol
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At 12 noon, House Oversight will meet on its portion of the COVID bill, which includes $350 billion in aid for state and local governments. GOP lawmakers like to paint this as a 'Blue State Bailout.' But the details show something much different. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/trump-lawyer…
Let's check in on Wyoming. Dozens and dozens of towns would get COVID aid under the House plan.
Before the House Rules Committee, Rep. Ted Deustch D-FL got choked up for a moment as he discussed the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and said it was flat wrong for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene R-GA to have harassed survivors of that event.
Rep. Jackie Walorski R-IN, the top Republican on the House Ethics Committee, says while she denounces Greene's comments, the move to strip Greene of her committee assignments is wrong. "What are we doing here?" Walorski asked.
Walorski says because many of Greene's comments came before she was a member of Congress, the Ethics Committee should have no jurisdiction over Greene's behavior before January 3, 2021.
Does that also apply to the GOP staying in control of Senate committees? Because it's Groundhog Day in the Senate on that again, with no organizing resolution yet.
House Democrats make clear to the GOP that they will move to punish Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene R-GA if Republicans don't act. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/biden-meets-…
It's just so normal now for Republicans to still be in charge of Senate committees - even though the GOP lost its majority - that it didn't even merit a mention as Sen. Jim Inhofe R-OK gaveled a nomination hearing to order this morning.
Senate panel starts business meeting on the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of Homeland Security.
Sen. Ron Johnson R-WI still chairing the panel.
Johnson is absolutely ripping Mayorkas, and says President Biden should not have picked him for the DHS post.
Sen. Rob Portman R-OH criticizes Mayorkas, but notes there has not been a Senate confirmed leader at DHS since April 2019. Portman says he will vote to send the Mayorkas nomination to the Senate floor.