Hmmm. I thought they searched them, ‘wanded’ them and did a pat down, and checked bags.
Guess not.
One of these nutcases is going to bring a weapon to one of these committee meetings before all is said and done.
To get in the building, they have to go through a fairly sensitive metal detector. The bags are checked. If the detector beeps, they are wanded. I have never seen anyone be patted down. That is how they caught Senator Webb’s handmaiden with a gun in his briefcase last summer. I imagine there are ways to get a weapon into those buildings, but not if you go in through a regular entrance. Even the trucks that deliver mail and food and stationary and equipment are x-rayed and inspected before they can enter the perimeter.