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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: Those who disregarded the metal detectors entering the House floor
have been each fined $5,000.
Don't fuck with Nancy!
underpants
(183,057 posts)MontanaMama
(23,369 posts)No more comments necessary.
whathehell
(29,112 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)A trifecta!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,088 posts)cstanleytech
(26,364 posts)reACTIONary
(5,797 posts)sheshe2
(84,086 posts)Good job NANCY!
lame54
(35,359 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,867 posts)lame54
(35,359 posts)Vivienne235729
(3,391 posts)avebury
(10,953 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,307 posts)nt
calimary
(81,610 posts)calimary
(81,610 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Nitram
(22,977 posts)stopbush
(24,401 posts)Nitram
(22,977 posts)soldierant
(6,966 posts)but i don't believe that's going to happen with these scofflaws, so it's moot.
Incidentally, second and subsequent offenses are $10,000.00 each.
Rick Rolle
(90 posts)They'll quickly make that up in "donations" from lobbyists and supporters. Don't be surprised to see some sort of GoFundMe page, or donations from a PAC. These politicians will wear it as a badge of honor that they defied the Speaker of the House.
theneworiginal
(302 posts)They will lose. Congress sets the rules for the Capital just like a management company can set rules for its own building for its tenants. Nancy passed the rule within the rules.
Suck it, assholes. Your ammo-sexual tendencies are keeping you from doing something/anything productive.
Nitram
(22,977 posts)Yeah, I know, some of them and their base will wear it as a badge of honor. But their action and punishment are both ion permanent record, permanently. History will not view them kindly.
wryter2000
(46,145 posts)Blam.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)tritsofme
(17,449 posts)Are they barred from the floor until the fine is paid?
Fullduplexxx
(7,880 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,151 posts)deduction from paycheck.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Hard ball. No bygones
rurallib
(62,491 posts)to be deducted from the paycheck.
They are going to get good at padding the expense account.
And the fine increases to $10k for the second offense. Lauren Bang Bang Barbie Boebert (R-Gun Nuts R' Us) is for sure one of them. I THINK Chip Roy (R-NRA) is also one of them. I wouldnt be surprised if Marjorie Taylor Gangrene (Q-Ball) was also involved.
OldBaldy1701E
(5,232 posts)to carrying a gun into the chambers. He is quoted as saying that he feels the detectors are infringing on his 2nd amendment rights to defend himself. Which means he feels he has to defend himself and has taken steps to do so. Scary.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,999 posts)but I doubt he flies on commercial aircraft.
yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)instead of him. People are crazy
Silent3
(15,451 posts)...and they can probably raise way more money in extra donations by performing for the deplorables like this.
stopbush
(24,401 posts)After taxes, the fine is basically two-weeks salary.
Silent3
(15,451 posts)Many are independently wealthy (or not so independently, as in they are corruptly scamming the system).
Grokenstein
(5,731 posts)A rich man will bawl louder over a missing nickel than a poor person will weep over a stolen twenty.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)For most of them, this is probably the most income they've ever made. They weren't exactly high value employees in the private sector before they were elected to Congress.
AllyCat
(16,271 posts)Donate to bail them out. Time to have the Capitol police just arrest them.
padah513
(2,516 posts)If they try to walk around assume they have a gun and manhandle the hell out of them before the arrest. After tasting the carpet once or twice with a knee to the back and a gun pointed at the back of their head they'll get the idea.
Irish_Dem
(48,130 posts)What a warped world we live in.
wryter2000
(46,145 posts)Not that they're above using campaign money for personal uses, even though it's illegal.
Irish_Dem
(48,130 posts)Seems to be a way they funnel money to themselves.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,034 posts)I could imagine several of them paying the fine - and using it as a fundraising gimmick to KEEP paying it - and just rubbing their distain in the faces of their colleagues, to "own the Libs"
Lonestarblue
(10,178 posts)Why should Democratic members of Congress, especially Pelosi and the Squad, have to work beside people who have said they want them dead, knowing those same people are carrying guns and could actually kill them. Not that I think they would, but its a form of intimidation that should not be allowed.
wnylib
(21,805 posts)set up to make bypassing the detector impossible. Then, anybody who does have a weapon detected, should be denied entry until they remove the weapon from their person, whether it't in a pcket, purse, briefcase, etc. and leave it behind. They can pick it up only on the way out.
They have already demonstrated that they can't be trusted, due to their support for violence.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)Because I'm fairly certain I've seen that happen to other citizens suspected of lesser offenses.
flying_wahini
(6,720 posts)Period.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)Every. Fucking. Time.
If Johnny "Apple Cheeks" Roberts had not stated, in the decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, that racism was no longer a thing, I would probably as concerned as Susan Collins on a bad day.
Mr.Bill
(24,376 posts)and kneel on their necks for eight minutes.
MuseRider
(34,142 posts)Not meeeeee. Way to go Nancy, treat them like you would a 3 year old with his hand in the center of a cake you just decorated. They know better but they just think they are special and, "What are you going to do about it, huh?" Now they know, fine them for not wearing masks or even not wearing them appropriately. A civil society does not regard your silly "not meeeeees" as important when you risk the others around you. Make them pay and behave like real grown ups. Such special people they are.
Fla Dem
(23,897 posts)but will be deducted from their pay.
$5k first offense. $10k second offense.
JDC
(10,152 posts)They love making a statement about what a-holes they are in the name of freedumb.
AllaN01Bear
(18,867 posts)Bmoboy
(279 posts)An anesthesiologist with a concealed carry permit is a scary thing.
Fuck him.
slumcamper
(1,608 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)... have now found out that "law and order" does apply to them too. Good.
iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)Gore1FL
(21,183 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,941 posts)BarbD
(1,195 posts)They feel unsafe. Who are they afraid of?
What idiots.
Talitha
(6,654 posts)$5,000
$10,000
$20,000
$40,000
etc...
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,545 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)... along with their fines. Let them be outed in the public record.
MyMission
(1,856 posts)Republican congressmen Louie Gohmert and Andrew Clyde fined $5,000 each for refusing to go through a new metal detector in the Capitol
Eliza Relman Feb 5, 2021, 6:04 PM
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/2-gop-congressmen-fined-5000-for-bypassing-house-metal-detector-2021-2%3famp
Gohmert was and will be a regular offender to the rule. Others will abide, until the day they stage a protest and carry in their firearms, whoever's got one. If and when that happens, all the Dems should walk out, which would remove a quorum so no votes could take place.
The GQP rep for my district carries, and I hope they are able to screen him adequately as he uses a wheelchair, which could be used to mask a firearm. I've been worried about him sneaking in a weapon that way; and also concerned as the Dem reps are, that so many support tRump, guns, violence and intimidation.
Blue Owl
(50,598 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,879 posts)If he is telling the truth - and that is a big IF - he says that he complied with the procedure and went through the detector. later, before he was scheduled to speak, he left the chamber to go to the bathroom. He says he wasn't asked to come back through the detector, but returned to the floor.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)What a superlative idea!
DFW
(54,520 posts)The entire Republican caucus would be working for free inside of a month.
Aussie105
(5,502 posts)can those miscreants who do manage to enter with weapons, be placed in bullet proof cages for the duration of their stay in the chamber? Hell, make it soundproof too! Adult version of the child's 'naughty corner'!
Bullet proof, no, not to keep bullets out, but to keep any 'accidental' discharge in. Should make a lot of noise, in an enclosed space!
randr
(12,418 posts)They risk the possibility for someone to over power them, take their weapon, and use it on innocent people.
Especially little miss Annie Oakley!
lettucebe
(2,337 posts)especially for someone wealthy. I prefer the immediate removal from pay and then an escalating scale, every time, fines double. So do it once, $5k, twice $10k, three times $20, etc. Maybe that'd help?
It sickens me the way they act so juvenile. How are young people supposed to learn how to act when our elected officials are like 2nd graders, and not well behaved 2nd graders either. (I love that age, it's the best).