Hours after The Post revealed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had paid $ 5,000 each for the compensation of two GOP congressmen for her new metal detectors, a group of Republican policymakers demanded that she pay the same fine for the same offense.
IDP members of the Committee on Home Administration made the tiger-and-tat claim on Friday night, claiming that Pelosi was seen entering the House on Thursday without going to the metal detectors she had ordered herself after the riot on Capitol at 6 p.m. January.
“Yesterday around 9:59 a.m., several members observed the Speaker of the House entering the House without completing the security investigation,” the members wrote to the acting sergeant of the House.
“We demand that she be fined the same as every other member of Congress,” said the GOP committee members. tweeted Friday night, together with a copy of the letter.
Earlier Friday, The Post reported that representatives Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) Were the first members of the House to be hit with the dramatic fine, which is taken directly from their $ 174,000 salaries.
Gohmert said he would appeal.
He said he usually complied with the metal detectors, but not once after retiring to use the bathroom.
“Unlike in the movie ‘The Godfather’, there are no toilets with tanks where one could hide a gun, so my entry to the house floor had to be a problem,” Gohmert said in a statement.