The Capitol Police union is calling on acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman and the force's other senior leaders to step down in the wake of a Senate report this week that outlined the security failures leading up to and on the day of the
Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.) called on members of her party to move away from former President Trump after Senate Republicans blocked legislation to form a commission to probe the Jan.
Conservative attorney and political pundit George Conway Republican senators have managed to outdo themselves in cowardice which is quite a feat, Conway wrote Wednesday in The Washington Post. Last week’s Senate vote blocking a national commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol was even more appalling than either of the Senate’s impeachment trial acquittals of former president Donald Trump
On Friday, senators voted 54-35 on the House-passed bill to establish the commission, falling short of the 10 GOP votes needed for passage. Republican senators had publicly and privately warned in the weeks leading up to Friday s vote that that they believed the commission would damage them heading into the 2022 midterm elections.
Florida Woman Accused of Assaulting Officer on Jan. 6 Released on Bond
A Florida woman who was arrested this week for allegedly assaulting a law enforcement officer in Washington on Jan. 6 was released on bond.
Authorities say Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey, 52, of Spring Hill, entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 before shouting at U.S. Capitol Police officers to “tell Pelosi we are coming for that [expletive],” according to court documents.
Southard-Rumsey also allegedly yelled, “There’s a hundred thousand of us, what’s it going to be?”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was in the building but was escorted outside after the Capitol was breached.