{"id":1530933,"date":"2022-06-28T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530933"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:05:28","slug":"former-senate-sergeant-at-arms-michael-stenger-in-charge-of-security-on-jan-6-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-senate-sergeant-at-arms-michael-stenger-in-charge-of-security-on-jan-6-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger, in Charge of Security on Jan. 6, Dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-senate-sergeant-at-arms-michael-stenger-in-charge-of-security-on-jan-6-dies-at-71%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>He resigned at the request of Sen. Mitch McConnell<\/p>\n<p>Michael Stenger, the former U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms who was in charge of Senate security during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, died on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances and cause of his death weren\u2019t immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on Twitter that Stenger \u201cwas found dead today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stenger, 71, of Falls Church, Virginia, resigned the day after the Capitol breach at the request of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who hired him for the post in April 2018. He served as the 41st sergeant-at-arms of the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The sergeant-at-arms is the chief law enforcement, protocol, and executive officer for the U.S. Senate. The sergeant-at-arms is responsible for security in the Capitol and in all Senate buildings and serves as Senate doorkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Testimony-Stenger-2021-02-23.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) before a congressional hearing on Feb. 23, 2021, Stenger called the events of Jan. 6, 2021, \u201ca violent, coordinated attack where the loss of life could have been much worse.\u201d He called for an investigation of \u201cprofessional agitators\u201d at the Jan. 6, 2021, protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an opportunity to learn lessons from the events of Jan. 6,\u201d he said. \u201cInvestigations should be considered as to funding and travel of what appears to be professional agitators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said Stenger and then-House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving balked at his initial request to put the National Guard on alert after it was apparent that huge crowds were gathering on Jan. 6, 2021. National Guard forces didn\u2019t arrive at the Capitol until after 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Stenger, Sund, and Irving resigned on Jan. 7, 2021, in the wake of protests and rioting across the Capitol grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Stenger and Irving also served on the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the 2,200-member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stenger, the former U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms who was in charge of Senate security during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, died on June 27. The circumstances and cause of his death weren\u2019t immediately clear. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted on Twitter that Stenger \u201cwas found dead today.\u201d Stenger, 71, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}