{"id":148057,"date":"2023-10-01T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148057"},"modified":"2023-10-01T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T18:25:59","slug":"squad-congressman-pulls-the-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148057","title":{"rendered":"“Squad” Congressman Pulls the Handle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHonest Mistake<\/em><\/p>\n

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Pulls Fire Alarm in House Office Building<\/h3>\n

Mr. Bowman, a Democrat, pulled the alarm ahead of a rushed vote on a stopgap funding measure. Two investigations have been opened in the incident.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kayla Guo and Gaya Gupta<\/p>\n

Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, pulled a fire alarm in the House Cannon office building on Saturday as his party was trying to delay a vote on a stopgap spending bill, prompting an evacuation of the building and investigations by the Capitol Police and the House Administration Committee.<\/p>\n

The alarm was triggered at the same time that House Democrats at the Capitol were stalling a vote on a spending measure to keep the government operating for another 45 days. Speaker Kevin McCarthy had unveiled the bill just minutes earlier, and Democrats were scrambling to read the bill and determine whether to support it. Later in the day, the bill passed 335 to 91, with more Democrats voting for it than Republicans.<\/p>\n

In a statement released Saturday night, Mr. Bowman said that he had not pulled the alarm to delay the vote, as some Republicans had presumed. He said that as he was rushing to the Capitol to cast a vote, he came to a door in the Cannon building that would not open.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused,\u201d Mr. Bowman said. \u201cBut I want to be very clear: this was not me, in any way, trying to delay any vote. It was the exact opposite \u2014 I was trying urgently to get to a vote.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

What an idiot. I can’t wait to see the bobbleheads desperately try to spin this as a simple mistake- of course it wasn’t. Question is, did he obstruct an official proceeding, a federal felony which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000? Or is that statute only used by the DOJ when charging 6 January insurrectionists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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