By CNSNews.com Staff | February 3, 2021 | 2:48pm EST
A fence was erected around the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot there. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said in a “Dear Colleague” letter that she sent to other Democratic members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday that she believes Congress “will need to establish a 9/11-type Commission to examine and report upon the facts, causes and security relating to the terrorist mob attack on January 6.
“The insurrectionist attack on January 6 was not only an attack on the Capitol, but was a traumatic assault targeting Members,” Pelosi told her colleagues.
Nancy Pelosi warns of enemy within US Congress and calls for greater security to protect members
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Politicians face threats of violence from an enemy within Congress and more money is needed to protect them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said, in a startling acknowledgment of escalating internal tensions over safety since this month s Capitol attack by supporters of former president Donald Trump.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said members are concerned about the threat of violence from other members of Congress
She did not name any names, but earlier had said Marjorie Taylor Greene s promotion to the education committee was appalling
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US Congress members face threats of violence from an enemy within , and more money is needed to protect them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says.
Pelosi s remarks came as the acting chief of the Capitol Police said vast improvements are needed to protect the Capitol and adjacent office buildings, including permanent fencing. Such barricades have ringed the complex since the January 6 riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
But lawmakers have long resisted giving the nation s symbol of democracy the look of a besieged compound.
Pelosi focused her comments on the anxiety and partisan frictions that have persisted in Congress since Trump supporters assault on the Capitol, which led to five deaths. She told reporters she thinks Congress will need to provide money for more security for members, when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday urged U.S. lawmakers to add permanent fencing and back-up security staff at the Capitol building after a deadly Jan. 6 attack.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would also probably need more funding for security as the “the enemy is within” the House, following a warning by the Department of Homeland Security of heightened threats.
The Senate is preparing to conduct its second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on a charge of inciting insurrection in a fiery speech Jan. 6 before hundreds of his supporters stormed the seat of Congress in a bid to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. Five people, including a police officer, died as a result of the violence.