The House unanimously approved a bill Friday that would bolster Secret Service protection for major presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Washington — The House unanimously approved a bill on Friday that would bolster Secret Service protection for major presidential and vice presidential candidates, following the second apparent attempt on former President Donald Trump's life in two months.
Mike Lawler and Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres. They introduced the legislation after the first Trump assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that wounded Trump and killed one attendee.'Elections are determined at the ballot box, not by an assassin's bullet,' Lawler said on the House floor Friday morning. 'That these incidents were allowed to occur is a stain on our country. We have endured through a assassinations of political leaders including presidents.
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