Fulfill your purposes by using our senators as agents of your grace. Lord, surround them with your favor, as their habes bring honor to you. Deliver them from the traps set by their enemies. Give them hearts filled with confidence in your prevailing providence, sustaining them with your unfailing faithfulness and love. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid mr. President , i just by chance last night was reading a book, and it had a page in there a speech that was given by john mccain, our fellow senator. What senator mccain talked about was some of his experiences in the prison camp in vietnam, where a man by the name of Mike Christian had spent an inordinate amount of time sewi
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Off-duty U.S. Capitol Police officer dies; officials cite suicide
Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post
Jan. 10, 2021
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Capitol Police on Sunday announced the death of off-duty officer Howard Liebengood, the son and namesake of a former Senate sergeant at arms, lobbyist and Hill staffer.
Two law enforcement officials told The Washington Post that Liebengood, 51, died by suicide over the weekend, days after being on the scene of Wednesday s violent siege of the Capitol building by a pro-Trump mob.
Statements released Sunday by the Capitol Police and its union did not specify a cause of death for Liebengood, who had been with the department since April 2005 and was assigned to the Senate Division. A former co-worker said he was often assigned to the Delaware entrance of the Russell Senate Office Building - his favorite posting.
Capitol Police Chief Sund steps down, leaving earlier than expected
Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post
Jan. 10, 2021
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U.S. Capitol Police riot squad as Trump supporters breach the Capitol on Jan. 6.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez
WASHINGTON - The chief of the embattled U.S. Capitol Police department stepped down from his post Friday, days earlier than he said he would following a deadly breach of the Capitol complex by a mob supporting President Donald Trump.
Chief Steven Sund on Thursday, hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., publicly called on him to step down, said his resignation would be effective Jan. 16.