{"id":1913993,"date":"2023-04-13T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republicans-in-congress-introduce-bills-to-provide-security-to-all-schools\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T02:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T06:31:26","slug":"tennessee-republicans-in-congress-introduce-bills-to-provide-security-to-all-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republicans-in-congress-introduce-bills-to-provide-security-to-all-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republicans in Congress Introduce Bills to Provide Security to All Schools"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftennessee-republicans-in-congress-introduce-bills-to-provide-security-to-all-schools%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=1913993&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0412\/ce06eb5a-feff-4ddc-998a-0c195f4f5d59\/audio.mp3?length=1904013&#038;duration=159\"><\/div>\n<p>After expressing their grief over the recent mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, three Tennessee Republicans have introduced legislation in Congress aimed at improving security in US schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Securing Aid for Every (SAFE) School Act (S. 1107) was proposed on March 30 by U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who had introduced similar legislation in the previous Congress, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), with U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)\u00a0introducing a companion bill (H.R. 2491) in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The bills propose a $900 million grant program that will enable public and private schools to train and hire veterans and former law enforcement officers as school safety officers,\u00a0hire off-duty law enforcement officers, and offer funding to harden schools and increase physical security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am beyond heartbroken at the shooting that occurred at the Covenant School in Nashville,\u201d Blackburn said in a statement. \u201cThis legislation will allow both public and private schools to train and hire veterans and former law enforcement officers to serve as school safety officers as well as increase physical security measures to harden schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty said, \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve joined Senator Blackburn in introducing this legislation to provide additional security resources to keep our schools and children safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Fleischmann, \u201cWe must protect our nation\u2019s schools and children from evil individuals who seek to cause senseless harm to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4141245\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/12\/06\/Chuck_Fleischmann_official_photo.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) in his official congressional portrait. (U.S. Congress)<\/figure>\n<p>These bills are aimed at providing better security in US schools and ensuring the safety and protection of the children while they learn and play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Tennessee Republicans who expressed \u201cheartbreak\u201d over the recent mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville have introduced legislation in Congress to improve security in U.S. schools. U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who introduced similar legislation in the prior Congress, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) proposed the Securing Aid for Every (SAFE) School Act (S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1615,"featured_media":1913994,"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":[543],"tags":[3905,4402,4725,7373,3756,3735,3646,6651],"class_list":["post-1913993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bills","tag-congress","tag-introduce","tag-provide","tag-republicans","tag-schools","tag-security","tag-tennessee"],"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\/1913993","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\/1615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}