{"id":1734002,"date":"2022-11-10T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734002"},"modified":"2022-11-10T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:32:33","slug":"exclusive-mccarthy-demands-house-managers-open-up-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mccarthy-demands-house-managers-open-up-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: McCarthy Demands House Managers Open Up The Capitol"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexclusive-mccarthy-demands-house-managers-open-up-the-capitol%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=1734002&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>According to a letter shared exclusively with The Federalist, House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demanded on Thursday that Capitol administrators start planning to reopen the complex.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, who announced his candidacy for speaker Wednesday expecting Republicans to retake the House after Tuesday\u2019s midterms, wrote to legislative branch officials that two-and-a-half years of closure was long enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been 2 years, 7 months, and 29 days since the People\u2019s House closed,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cThat means for 973 days, the American People have been restricted from exercising their constitutional right to petition the first branch of government\u2026 That posture is no longer acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View KOM Reopen Letter 11.10.22 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/606646215\/KOM-Reopen-Letter-11-10-22#from_embed\">KOM Reopen Letter 11.10.22<\/a> by <a title=\"View The Federalist&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/274202084\/The-Federalist#from_embed\">The Federalist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCarthy demanded Capitol managers present plans to congressional leadership for reopening by Jan. 3, the first day of the new Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReopening the House is more than just a symbolic measure,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cGovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people requires interaction with the people. It is for this reason that we must welcome Americans from across this nation back to the Halls of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi closed the Capitol complex early in the coronavirus pandemic, when Democrats implemented lockdowns lasting months from coast to coast. The Capitol remained no exception, where Democrats promptly implemented proxy voting as a temporary measure to become <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/29\/nancy-pelosi-renews-emergency-absentee-voting-for-congress-thats-already-lasted-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">permanent<\/a> under Pelosi\u2019s tenure. Initially put in place to protect members from exposure to the novel virus, proxy voting quickly became abused by representatives to blow off elected duties. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, took <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/30\/ethics-investigation-called-for-after-democrat-used-voting-proxy-to-go-to-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advantage<\/a> of the proxy voting rules to go to Paris, and other members appointed colleagues to vote in their place to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/28\/house-democrats-take-advantage-of-new-proxy-voting-rules-to-attend-space-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attend<\/a> a space launch.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/29\/140-republican-lawmakers-pile-onto-lawsuit-against-democrats-over-proxy-voting-file-injunctions-on-new-proxy-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corralled <\/a>more than 100 Republicans to launch a lawsuit ending proxy voting that was ultimately rejected by the courts. <\/p>\n<p>Once protesters compromised Capitol security on Jan. 6, 2021 \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/16\/nancy-pelosi-owns-january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consequence<\/a> of Pelosi\u2019s refusal to preemptively mobilize the National Guard six times \u2014 the speaker ramped up security with an expanded perimeter complete with militarized barricades. The enhanced border was eventually trimmed down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/capitol-fencing-coming-down\/2021\/07\/09\/104ac502-df3e-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">six months later<\/a>, but the complex remained largely closed to visitors and tourists. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we can all agree that 973 days is more than long enough for the American People to be shut out of their government,\u201d McCarthy wrote Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to Capitol administrators demanding plans to reopen from a forever lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1734005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734002","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}