Oversight Hearing – Capitol Complex Public Safety and Security

House Subcommittee on Legislative Branch

2025-03-25

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The subcommittee will come to order.  I'd like to thank the Ranking Member Espaillat and the Ranking Member of our full committee, Ms. DeLauro, for joining us today.  I'd like to extend a particularly warm welcome to the new members of our subcommittee, Representative Nick LaLotta, Representative Dale Strong, Representative Celeste Malloy,   and our new Vice Chair, Representative Riley Moore, Representative Steny Hoyer.  I look forward to working together in a bipartisan fashion as we begin the fiscal year 2026 process.  The purpose of today's oversight hearing is to review the status of public safety and security of the Capitol Complex.   learn about recent breaches to the campus and hear about the new actions that United States Capitol Police Chief, Chief of Police and his leadership team are taking to address these lapses.  I want to begin by welcoming Chief Manger and congratulating him on his upcoming retirement.  Thank you, Chief, for your years of leadership and service to the Capitol community.   We appreciate your dedication and work you have done to enhance the safety and security of each member, our families and staff, and especially our constituents while visiting the nation's Capitol.  I also want to thank each and every officer in the United States Capitol Police.  Each member of Congress is keenly aware of your diligent efforts and that many of you of your heroic actions are never made public.  But please know that you are seen and appreciated.   We appreciate your recent successes in multiple back-to-back national special security events, such as the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies and the most recent President Joint Address.   While we certainly appreciate and have come to expect these successes, we also recognize the continued success in your mission requires some change, some refocusing and retraining, and especially increased consistency and vigilance.  We will learn in more detail from Chief Manger in his testimony over the past months
Capital Complex has experienced several security lapses in which members of the public and even staff members have entered our buildings with items that are prohibited but have gone undetected by our officers.

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