Hours after The Post revealed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi awarded $ 5,000 each to the remuneration of two GOP congressmen for bouncing their new metal detectors, a group of Republican police demanded that she pay the same fine for the same offense.
GOP members of the House Administration Committee filed the lawsuit Friday night, claiming that Pelosi had been seen entering the House chamber on Thursday without going through the metal detectors she herself had ordered installed later. of the commotion of the Capitol on the 6th of January.
“Yesterday at approximately 9:59 a.m., several members observed that the chamber president was entering the chamber without completing the security check,” the members wrote to the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms.
“We demand that he face the same fines as all other members of Congress,” Republican Party committee members said. has tweeted Friday night, along with a copy of the letter.
Friday before, The Post reported that Reps Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) Were the first members of the House to receive the dramatic fine, which is obtained directly from their salaries. $ 174,000.
Gohmert said he will appeal.
He said he normally meets metal detectors, but did not do so on any occasion after going to the bathroom.
“Unlike the movie ‘The Godfather,’ there are no toilets with tanks where a weapon could be hidden, so my re-entry to the floor of the house would not have been a problem,” Gohmert said in a statement. .