Minnesota shootings cause a security review for families for families

The weekend shots of Minnesota legislators have deeply shaken the members of the Chamber and the Senate.

The reason?

“The Minnesota was discordant because (the suspect) went after his family,” said a member of the chamber that faced threats and asked for anonymity. “We left 50% of the time. There are no more lines.”

There is a Briefing on a Senate scale on members’ safety today. The House Republicans received a virtual briefing late Saturday afternoon. The Democrats of the Chamber will receive a remote briefing tomorrow.

The shootings of the Minnesota legislator have a debate on security in the House and Senate

The question is what the Congress Security Managers can do to ensure the safety of members?

An idea was to force the president of the Mike Johnson room (R -La.) To leave the offices of the members have even more flexibility to use the money – than the Congress allocates to the operation of each office – to an additional security measure. It is said to Fox which could allow individual offices to hire full -time protection details.

“Then they don’t need to give us more money,” said a member of the room.

The murders of the representative of the state Melissa Hortman, d-minn., And her husband, and the attempts to murder the state senator John Hoffman, d-minn., And his wife, during the weekend, left Capitol Hill deeply shaken. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)

A democrat applauded the American Capitol police. But stressed that it was physically impossible for the USCP to protect all members and their families 24/7 – in Washington and in their original states or districts.

He was also highlighted in Fox that there was no information on the shooters who have produced two of the most violent episodes involving legislators in recent years. This includes the shooting of the Congress baseball training in 2017 and the filming of the former representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) In 2011.

“We must be proactive by ourselves,” said a legislator in Fox. “Not reactive.”

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Fox is informed that he was also discussion on cleaning personal information from web legislators or approval of antidoxxing legislation.

Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) Run the fact of forcing the Chamber to a “secret session” to debate the appropriate approach to congress safety. Such a resolution to move the room in a secret session requires a vote. It is also privileged – which means that Moskowitz could force the problem. Or, the room could vote to place it. The staff inside the session must sign an oath of secret.

Representative Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Wakes up the idea of ​​forcing the Chamber to the “secret session” to debate the best safety practices in the congress. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The Chamber has not organized a clandestine session since 2008 – and only six of these conclaves in the history of the Republic. Moskowitz would like to bring members to the case to vote against a secret session for security. If they oppose it, legislators do not have the right to complain. Otherwise, he thinks they can really find a way to keep other members in security and their families. Several legislators with whom Fox has spoken during the weekend said that the problem is that there is no consensus about how members want or if the American Capitol police have the means – on the basis of what the Congress appropriated for this department – to ensure the safety of family members in 435 distant districts.

Another point of hot debate. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

In addition, security officials and those of the GOP telephone call said to Fox on Saturday that there were many criticisms by members of the current security posture – of those who do not take advantage of the current programs that the Chamber and the USCP have designed to ensure the safety of the members.

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“They really like to complain,” said a republican source of those who have not used the security options offered to them by the USCP.