“How did they know to go there?” he asked. “How come they didn’t go where my name was? They went where you won’t find my name, but they found where I was supposed to be. So something else was going on untoward here. So we need to have an extensive investigation to find out. Why were they taking selfies with these people? Why were they out there waving people on to the grounds? Why were they allowing people through the door? They went to Statuary Hall as if they were part of the statutes that are there.”
Mr. Clyburn’s comments came after a mob of President Trump supporters who falsely believe he won the election against President-elect Joseph R. Biden stormed the Capitol building and temporarily halted a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College votes Wednesday afternoon.
Chao and DeVos are the latest in a wave of resignations from various administration officials in the wake of a riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of the president and are the first two Cabinet secretaries to resign.
“For two Cabinet members to resign, that says to me that they’re running away from their responsibilities,” Clyburn continued. “If they feel that strongly, they would stay there and wait on this meeting where they can cast two of the votes that are necessary to invoke the 25th Amendment. They’re running away.”
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn speaks to the Journal-isms Rountable.
“I’ve been toying around with an idea now for two or three decades, ever since I’ve been in the Congress,” Clyburn said during Richard Prince’s Journal-isms Roundtable Jan. 3. “I’ve been trying to build up enough nerve to introduce a national hymn.
“I instructed my staff two weeks ago to prepare legislation for me to apply this week to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ our national hymn. We have a national anthem, we don’t have a national hymn. I would love to see that become our national hymn, and being sung at events, not as the Negro National Anthem, but as the United States of America’s national hymn.
Nancy Pelosi appears on track to be reelected speaker Sunday despite narrower majority
Members of Congress returned to Washington on Sunday to officially usher in a new session and elect their speaker, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears on track to be narrowly reelected, despite having a smaller majority than in the previous Congress.
Pelosi is running unopposed in her election after serving for 17 years as the leader of the House Democrats. But she has a slim margin for error and is carefully counting votes to ensure that she can avoid any embarrassment on the House floor.
Pelosi faces the Democrats’ smallest majority in decades, a pandemic that has hindered attendance and some in her caucus agitating for new leadership, as well as unified Republican resistance.