{"id":21827,"date":"2011-01-12T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2011-01-12T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:24:21","slug":"house-members-want-more-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21827","title":{"rendered":"House members want more security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tough. I wanted more security and I bought a slew of handguns and a security system. I didn’t go to my boss and tell him he had a responsibility to pay for my new security solutions. I work at home most of the week, so that would justify my employer paying for it, right? But the thought never crossed my mind until now.<\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner<\/a> says;<\/p>\n

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on Tuesday called for an increase in House budget to allow for augmented security for members. Just last week, the House voted to slash its operating budget by 5 percent, or $35 million, as part of the GOP drive to reduce federal spending the cut the deficit.<\/p>\n

Jackson wants that money restored, plus 10 percent, in order to augment security in the Capitol and in districts, where he said some lawmakers may need to hire security for constituent events and install surveillance cameras in their district offices.<\/p>\n

“After the events of last weekend, it is clear that our district staffs are vulnerable,” Jackson said in an e-mail. “Members should have the resources and the latitude to take appropriate security measures in order to protect themselves and their staffs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, tough. You should have thought of that before this weekend when you were spending your money on military aircraft to fly members to their districts and those lavish receptions and goodbyes to lame duck members.<\/p>\n

If members of Congress want more security when they go to their districts, they can carry their personal firearm or hire their own protection…or convince their local PDs to patrol their events. They volunteered for their jobs, they can quit at anytime if the kitchen gets too hot for them. Maybe that’ll keep them in Washington more than three days every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tough. I wanted more security and I bought a slew of handguns and a security system. … House members want more security<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}