Set against the Capitol’s marble halls, the uniforms were eerie symbols of what had unfolded that morning.
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The GOP lawmakers’ team was taking batting practice when gunshots rang out and chaos erupted. He later died of his injuries, Trump told the nation from the White House. “We’ve got kids over here in this yard'”.
Scalise remains in critical condition on Thursday, and President Donald Trump said “he’s in some trouble” as Scalise entered into his third surgery. The attacker, who was shot by Scalise’s security detail and later died, was an IL man whose social media postings showed anger at Trump and the Republicans.
Former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre presented the game ball to Capitol Police special agent David Bailey, who came out on the field on crutches after being injured in Wednesday’s shooting, to throw out the first pitch to huge applause.
“The security evaluations have to be done by the Capitol Police”, Pelosi said, when asked if large congregations of lawmakers should have a police presence if leadership is not there.
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The FBI said it was investigating the shooter’s “activities and social media impressions” in the months leading up to the attack.
Many lawmakers would agree that they share blame for the current landscape.
Authorities say they are examining a cell phone, a computer and a camera found inside a white van where the gunman who wounded a top Republican congressman and several others had been living. And intense disapproval of Congress has manifested in fiery town halls and even threats toward lawmakers.
“I just don’t know what to tell you people”, she told reporters.
“I think we can give them more resources”, Pelosi said of the police force that oversees members and visitors to the Capitol. “He has a family. It just shows how resilient these politicians are”. Republicans and Democrats sat in different parts of the park – fans could state their party preference when buying tickets.
Scalise, R-Jefferson, was shot in the hip in a shooting that left a total of six people injured at an Alexandria, Virginia baseball field.
Well over half a century later, affection for the annual game hasn’t dimmed. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas is placed into an ambulance at the scene of a shooting at a baseball field in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Democrats opened an 11-2 lead in the fifth inning on the strength of his pitching, and by then he had scored every time he was up. “This is a charity baseball game. We need to assess what the real risks are”.
The House sergeant-at-arms is also in touch with the Federal Election Commission about the possibility of allowing the use of campaign funds for security, Strong said.
At that hour, it was unclear whether the game would be played.
Yesterday morning’s baseball practice was in preparation for the Congressional Baseball Game this evening at Nationals Park in Washington – which took place as scheduled.
“It seems self-evident that when the teams are practicing, there should be security there”, Pelosi said.
“Steve is going to be in this for a while”, Cassidy said. “We’re going to go ahead and play the ball game”.
The shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise and four other men shook the capital to its foundations this week, prompting bipartisan calls for lawmakers to re-embrace civility and bridge their ideological differences.
Will it transform the modern political culture? Both had appeared on the House floor earlier.
Almost 25,000 tickets were sold for the game and it was on track to raise more than $1 million, roughly double what it did previous year, organizers said.
Trump is also crediting the congressman for bringing people together. “I know in times of tragedy, Americans do that”. “When we’re out there, it’s such a change from the pressures we feel on a regular basis”. The two have enjoyed a long-running ribbing over the game, which Republicans won last year to break a seven-year Democratic win streak.
Several college professors took advantage of Wednesday’s shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to mock his support for gun ownership and the Second Amendment.
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Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, said: “We can not let that be a victory for the assailant or anyone who would think that way”, she said.
