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(CNS News) – House Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), along with 41 other House members, sent a letter on Feb. 5 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urging her “to remove the barbed wire fencing surrounding the Capitol and send the National Guard troops home to their families.” To date, Pelosi has not responded to the congressmens’ letter.
“[W]e are concerned with recent reports that the fencing surrounding the Capitol may become permanent,” wrote Rep. Buddand his colleagues in the letter to Pelosi. “We are willing to have an honest debate about providing Capitol Hill Police with the resources they need to be better prepared without turning the Capitol into a permanent fortress.
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Originally published on February 25, 2021 1:18 pm
Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, testifying remotely through a video link, told a House committee that her agency head had requested military backup about a half-dozen times in the first hour after the Capitol complex was breached on Jan. 6, the day of the insurrection.
Pittman based her assessment on phone records her agency obtained for then-Chief Steven Sund showing he reached out to the Capitol s top security officials starting shortly before 1 p.m. in the first of six calls requesting the National Guard to respond. Chief Sund spoke to both sergeants-at-arms to request National Guard support, Pittman told a House panel on Thursday in her first testimony in a public congressional hearing on the siege.
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Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, testifying remotely through a video link, told a House committee that her agency head had requested military backup about a half-dozen times in the first hour after the Capitol complex was breached on Jan. 6, the day of the insurrection.
Pittman based her assessment on phone records her agency obtained for then-Chief Steven Sund showing he reached out to the Capitol s top security officials starting shortly before 1 p.m. in the first of six calls requesting the National Guard to respond.