Members of Congress will receive security briefings this week after a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed, and another state lawmaker and his wife wounded in targeted shootings on Saturday.
Senators are set to receive a security briefing from the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday. The briefing comes at the request of Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer said Sunday that the bipartisan briefing would concern security for Senate members and the country more broadly.
“We have to reevaluate how we are protecting members of Congress and staffs in the face of rising threats, but we also have to look at protecting all American people as that happens,” the New York Democrat said.
Schumer said he also asked the Capitol Police to immediately increase security for senators following the attacks.
He said the shootings are “more than a regional tragedy.”
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