{"id":1935743,"date":"2023-05-22T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-receive-precautionary-satellite-phones-just-before-hurricane-season\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T21:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:42:29","slug":"senators-receive-precautionary-satellite-phones-just-before-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-receive-precautionary-satellite-phones-just-before-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators get satellite phones as a precaution before hurricane season."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fsenators-receive-precautionary-satellite-phones-just-before-hurricane-season%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=1935743&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>Senate Members Receive Satellite Phones for Emergency Communication<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s sergeant-at-arms has distributed satellite phones to senators and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-gop-maricopa-county-refuses-to-comply-with-audit-requirements\/\" title=\"Ariz. GOP: Maricopa County refuses to comply with audit requirements\">staff ahead<\/a> of the Atlantic hurricane season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-giving-illegal-border-crossers-smart-phones-to-report-to-ice\/\" title=\"White House Defends Giving Illegal Border Crossers Smart Phones to Report to ICE\">phones provide<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-suspends-gas-tax-for-the-rest-of-the-year-as-prices-continue-at-record-highs\/\" title=\"New York Suspends Gas Tax For The Rest Of The Year As Prices Continue At Record Highs\">critical lifeline<\/a> during disasters that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-receive-precautionary-satellite-phones-just-before-hurricane-season\/\" title=\"Senators get satellite phones as a precaution before hurricane season.\">impact local communication capabilities<\/a>. They can also be used in areas without cellular service. The specific lawmakers using the phones and the provider or providers were not named. The move follows a tightening of Senate security practices after the events of Jan. 6, 2021. At least 50 senators have reportedly taken the phones. The crackdown on threats to lawmakers is in line with actions by Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate members received satellite phones from the sergeant-at-arms as a precautionary measure. These phones are crucial during disasters that affect local communication, such as cellular and landline phones, and the internet. An official shared this information with The Epoch Times via email on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":1935744,"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":[16197,11304,27354,18439,5793,3709],"class_list":["post-1935743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-hurricane","tag-phones","tag-precaution","tag-satellite","tag-season","tag-senators"],"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\/1935743","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}