billyerock123
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do you think they will get it ???? i don'tthis is how stupid Republicans are... The House and Senate sergeants-at-arms, who are nominated by each chamberās leader and elected by chamber members, serve as the Capitolās chief law enforcement officers for their respective chambers. Each makes decisions for the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the Capitolās police force in concert with several House and Senate committees, including one on which Davis sits.
The House sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker just as the Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader, but there is no indication Pelosi controls day-to-day security operations. So we reached out to Davisā office to ask what he was talking about.
The House sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker just as the Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader, but there is no indication Pelosi controls day-to-day security operations. So we reached out to Davisā office to ask what he was talking about.
Citing a Feb. 1 letter from Sund to Pelosi, Davis spokesman Aaron DeGroot responded in an email that the former police chief āalone could not request National Guard support because he āhad no authority to do so without an Emergency Declaration by the Capitol Police Board.ā Requesting National Guard support is a major security decision, and itās one that even the Speakerās office admits they were involved in.ā
That description is accurate. According to a bipartisan Senate report on the Jan. 6 attack, the Capitol police chief āhas no unilateral authority to request assistance from the National Guardā and āmust submit a request for assistance to the Capitol Police Board for approval.ā Likewise, as DeGroot noted, Pelosiās office has said Irving did request the speakerās permission to call on the National Guard.
However, those facts do not prove Pelosi made all the calls on how Sund, Irving, and the other members of the Capitol Police Board responded to the crisis ā most notably because then-Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger, who reported to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the time, also played an active role.
As Sund noted in his letter to Pelosi, the police chief ānotified the two Sergeant at Armsā around 1 p.m. on Jan. 6 that he āurgently needed support.ā Despite confusion over the statutory process for requesting National Guard assistance, both Irving and Stenger eventually approved Sundās request to call for backup at 2:10 p.m., according to the Senate report.
Prior to that approval being granted, the New York Times reported, aides to both congressional leaders āwere perplexed to learn that the two sergeants-at-arms had not yet approved the request for troops, according to spokesmen for Mr. McConnell and Ms. Pelosi.ā
āThe speaker expects security professionals to make security decisions and to be informed of those decisions,ā Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill told the Times.
Our ruling
Davis said āwe know that the speakerās office was calling the shots on all ofā the actions taken by the officials in charge of Capitol security on Jan. 6.
As evidence, his office highlighted the fact that then-House Sergeant-at-Arms Irving requested approval from Pelosi before greenlighting the Capitol police chiefās request to call in the National Guard.
But Davis and his spokesman ignored a critical detail: the decision to approve that request and call for backup was not Irvingās call alone. It was made in conjunction with the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who reports to the Senate majority leader. At the time, that was McConnell.
those are the facts