GOP Reps Gohmert, Clyde Fined $5,000 For Evading House Metal Detectors

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Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert and Andrew Clyde will be hit with $5,000 fines for allegedly skirting a new rule requiring lawmakers to pass through metal detectors on their way to the House floor, a senior Democratic aide told, making them the first members of Congress to face penalties for violating a new House security policy.... [+]

call on then-Attorney General William Barr to release findings of an investigation into allegations of 2020 election fraud, outside the Capitol on Dec. 3.The two lawmakers are the first members of Congress to get penalized since the House approved fines for rulebreakers

 

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Well deserved.. Asshole GQP

Idiot

replouiegohmert and his buddy andrew clyde just showed they are assholes!

“Yesterday, at approximately 9:59 am, multiple members observed the Speaker of the House entering the House Chamber without completing security screening.”

Besides a fine, those who refuse to comply with the rules of Congress need to be refused entry to the building and put on suspension.Three suspensions and you’re expelled from Congress.

Of course it was GOP only thinking about themselves!🙄

Good! Next time should be double that!

Get that money

This fine is the 2021 Republican Red Badge of Courage.

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