Republicans promise a “huge push” to pressure House President Nancy Pelosi, D-California, to pay the fine she imposed for diverting magnetometers installed after the riot in the Capitol to enter the house floor.
Rep Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Outlined his first version to Fox News on Thursday to see the speaker enter the house floor from a forbidden entrance.
“She opened the session on the floor and came through the Speaker’s lobby,” Davis said. “We are all told, one Republican was fined for doing so only yesterday, that you can not walk through the entrances if you are not disabled.”
Pelosi’s office has not yet denied the bill, despite requests for comment.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was fined $ 5,000 on Friday for bypassing metal detectors when he said he left the floor of the house to use the bathroom.
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Davis calls Pelosi’s actions part of a ‘typical thing for you, not for me, an attitude that comes from San Francisco.’
“Pay the good speaker Pelosi,” said Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, wrote on Twitter.
Crenshaw told Fox News Pelosi should pay the fine because her actions were against her own rules.
“Now is that a smart rule? No. Is it a rule that makes sense? No, of course not. But that’s not the point, the point is that these are her rules. She literally seized property in. the form of money, which we think is unconstitutional, but they do it anyway, ‘the Republican from Texas continued.
“She will not abide by the rules herself, so we will make a great effort to pay the fine,” Crenshaw said.
Davis appealed to Capitol police to report the offense to acting sergeant Timothy Blodgett so he can issue the fine. Blodgett said Friday police in the Capitol did not report the incident.
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“Capitol police can not only file reports of violations against Republicans, but also look the other way if the most powerful person in the House, the speaker, disputes her own rules,” Davis said.
The House on Tuesday adopted a measure requiring all members to go through the magnetometers that Capitol Hill police erected outside the living room after the riot in Capitol last month. Democrats called for the measure after several Republicans claimed they were armed in the chamber during the Jan. 6 riot. Members of Congress may carry firearms in the Capitol, but not on the floor.
Several Republican lawmakers, including representatives Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Louie Gohmert of Texas, flatly refused to walk through the metal detectors before entering the room, asking Pelosi to add a fine for non-compliance.
Lawmakers are now fined $ 5,000 for the first time violating the new security protocols, followed by a $ 10,000 fine for each additional violation.
“It is tragic that this step is necessary, but the House of Commons must and will be safe,” Pelosi said in a statement.
GOP legislators in the House Administration Committee sent a letter to Acting Sergeant Timothy Blodgett requesting that the newly implemented $ 5,000 fine be issued for failing to complete a security check before entering the house floor.
“Yesterday, at approximately 9:59 a.m., several members observed the Speaker of the House entering the House without completing the security check,” Republicans wrote Friday in a letter obtained by Fox News.
“What was noticed was a clear violation of House Resolution 73 and you must impose this fine according to the House Rules. Please let us know as soon as the fine has been assessed,” they continued. “We look forward to a prompt response to this inquiry.”
Republicans largely view the magnetometers as an ineffective inconvenience, arguing that threats like those on Jan. 6 do not come from fellow lawmakers.
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“If you are a liberal, there is a tendency for action, even if the action is not effective,” Crenshaw said of the new metal floor detectors on the House floor and the fine for circumventing them. “There is a tendency towards virtue, even if the signal is not effective.”