A Step In The Right Direction: New House GOP Majority Reverses This Petty Pelosi Measure

By Mark Whittington | Friday, 06 January 2023 08:35 AM
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A Step In The Right Direction: New House GOP Majority Reverses This Petty Pelosi Measure

While Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy struggled to find the votes within his conference to be elected Speaker, he has made some decisions that have won universal approval from Republican House members and likely some Democrats.

He has reversed the stringent security measures that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now imposed in the wake of January 6, 2021, riot.

According to the Western Journal, Leader McCarthy ordered the metal detectors that Pelosi had installed outside the House Chamber.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, expressed glee at the metal detectors’ removal. “I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. I think they need to be removed from the Capitol, filled with Tannerite and blown up.”

Boebert added, along with a video of her celebrating, “When I arrived in Congress two years, Nancy Pelosi put this hunk of garbage outside of the House chambers for members of Congress to go through. Today, they are being removed and we are turning Pelosi’s House back into the people’s House.”

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The congresswoman told the New York Post that Democrats “should not feel unsafe. If they do, they should see me for a concealed carry weapons permit, and I can make sure they are locked and loaded in Washington, D.C., legally.

“Nancy Pelosi has been a monster of a speaker, and I’m very happy that she no longer has the gavel and little political stunts like the magnetometers are gone forever.”

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In the meantime, Roll Call reports that Republicans intend to lift other post-January 6 security measures that Pelosi had imposed. Visitors will again be allowed to access the House Gallery to watch the body’s proceedings. The visitors will still be subject to security screening. Saturday tours of the Capitol will also resume.

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Also, unescorted visitors will be allowed in House office buildings. The restrictions, some of which were imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have especially irked lobbyists. They believed that they restricted access to members of Congress and their staff.

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Leader McCarthy noted the reasons for loosening the security restrictions. “Reopening the House is more than just a symbolic measure — a government of the people, by the people, for the people requires interaction with the people. It is for this reason that we must welcome Americans from across the nation back to the Halls of Congress.”

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