House Republicans want Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who admitted he pulled a Capitol building’s fire alarm hours before a possible government shutdown, to get the same justice as the Jan. 6 protesters got for their 2021 breach of the Capitol to obstruct official business.
Mr. Bowman, New York Democrat, said in a statement Saturday night that he pulled a Cannon House Office Building fire alarm because he was “rushing to make a vote” and thought that activating the alarm would open a nearby door.
According to a GOP aide, Republicans suspect he was attempting to contribute to the Democrats’ floor-delaying tactics to stop a vote on the GOP-proposed stop-gap spending measure, which had caught them by surprise. The U.S. Capitol Police confirmed to The Washington Times that the agency has opened an investigation into “what happened and why.”
Rep. Cory Mills, Florida Republican, suggested Mr. Bowman’s phone be seized, noting that the cell phone of Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, was seized by the FBI in the fallout of the Jan. 6 riots. In a subsequent post, Mr. Nehls showed a photo of himself holding handcuffs and asked Mr. Bowman, “Jamaal, are you ready?”
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