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Yes, I saw the CODEL Pelosi tag on the cart. The nomenclature for a Congressional Delegation is to use the name of the ranking member on the trip and since she is the Speaker of the House, she is always the ranking member of any trip.

Based upon the amount of luggage on that rack and the fact that it was outside the USAF House Liaison office leads me to conclude there were numerous USAF officers accompanying the CODEL. Anytime a Congressman travels to a military base, they take escorts from the service who has the most equities on the trip. It is also highly likely there were other, lower ranking Congressman who were on the trip. Additionally, you can see on the bottom of the pile a military green duffel bag. Highly unlikely she owns one of these, let alone uses it.

Even if she was going on her own, she would not travel without her personal staffer(s) like her MLA (Military Liaison Assistant). She would also take along professional staffers from the HASC. So, the travel team becomes fairly large, very quickly when high ranking Congressman travel. This is also most likely why the USAF sent a bus to DC to pick everyone up to take to Joint Base Andrews to get on the government jet they were taking.

Hope this helps.

JoMa