U.S. Capitol Police is investigating whether GOP Rep. Andy Harris The USCP is investigating the matter, officials confirmed to HuffPost and CBS Baltimore.
Following the deadly pro-Trump siege at the Capitol earlier this month, magnetometers and other security measures have been installed outside of the chamber.
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A reporter for HuffPost witnessed Harris setting off the metal detectors as he attempted to enter the chamber on Thursday.
When an officer with a metal detector wand scanned him, a firearm was detected on Harris’s side, concealed by his suit coat, according to the outlet. The reporter witnessed an officer signaling to a security agent that Harris had a firearm on him, motioning toward his own weapon.
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Toomey’s language would rescind unused funding allocated by Congress in the March CARES Act to backstop Fed lending programs. It would reiterate that five Fed credit lending facilities will expire at the end of the year and ensure that the Treasury Department and Fed couldn’t create future clones of the program.
Republicans worry that the Biden administration could otherwise use the authority to use the Federal Reserve to fund state and local governments or other priorities. Democrats argue that Republicans are trying to take away the Fed’s flexibility in responding to economic developments once Joe Biden
Schumer, on Saturday, said leadership was making progress on every issue except Toomey s request. This is something that only materialized in the past few days and would leave the Treasury and the Fed with less authority than it had even prior to the pandemic, Schumer said.
Negotiators are also still trying to work out funding to help entertainment venues amid a push to expand that funding to zoos and other tourism-driven businesses. And Republicans are wary of adding a $90 billion pot of money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency that they worry is a back door for adding money for state and local governments.
“It is my choice,” Buck told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto on Friday. “I’m an American and I have the freedom to decide if I’m going to take a vaccine or not and, in this case, I’m not going to take the vaccine.”
The comments come as both health officials and social media companies alike are attempting to combat misinformation on the safety of the vaccine, with health experts saying that at least 70 percent of the country needs to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity and end the outbreak that has infected more than 17.4 million Americans and killed more than 300,000.