House lawmakers say they re targets and ask for extra security from their allowances after deadly Capitol insurrection Jake Lahut Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and other members take cover during the Capitol Siege on Jan. 6, 2021. Democratic and Republican lawmakers are asking for extra security. More than 30 House lawmakers asked if they can use their allowance money for it. In a letter to leadership, they said Capitol Police cannot adequately protect all of them.
Members of the US House of Representatives asked to use their allowance money to cover extra security following the Capitol siege.
More than 30 lawmakers signed on to a letter sent to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, which was first obtained by CBS News.
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and other members take cover during the Capitol Siege on Jan. 6, 2021. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are asking for extra security.
More than 30 House lawmakers asked if they can use their allowance money for it.
In a letter to leadership, they said Capitol Police cannot adequately protect all of them.
Members of the US House of Representatives asked to use their allowance money to cover extra security following the Capitol siege.
Democrats rip Republicans for choosing conspiracy theorist congresswoman for education committee role
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others in her party condemned Republicans after it was revealed they had chosen new congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for a spot on the House s labour and education committee. Greene has expressed support for views denying school shootings have taken place.
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Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is shown walking to the House floor on Jan. 13 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
World
January 21, 2021
World leaders said they were looking forward to Wednesday’s transfer of power in the United States, where Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in as president after four turbulent years under Donald Trump.
Top EU officials voiced relief that they would soon have a friend in the White House again. Let’s build a new founding pact for a stronger Europe, for a stronger America and for a better world, said Charles Michel, president of the European Council. This time-honoured ceremony on the steps of the US Capitol will be a demonstration of the resilience of American democracy, added European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. And the resounding proof that, once again, after four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House.
Into the Electric Collage
by Ethan Andrews
select When “Mad” Mike Hughes launched himself into the sky in a homemade rocket last year, leaving a torn parachute behind in a blast of steam propulsion, he was doing what scientists and doctors have done for millennia, testing a hypothesis against firsthand experience. As it happened, Hughes’ hypothesis, that the Earth is flat, has been under assault since antiquity. Still, Hughes, a stuntman who once made a world-record distance jump in a stretch limo, spent years building rockets so he could get far enough away from his subject to see for himself. Whether his last flight scratched the itch is unknown; after the bungled launch, his rocket obeyed the laws of projectiles, attributed to Galileo, and nosedived into the desert.