Doug Bandow: It’s time to plug congressional security holes on Capitol Hill

Congress long has leaked like a proverbial sieve. That’s not always a bad thing. But it’s time to apply the same security standards to legislators and their staffs as to other federal employees.

The poster child for reform is Rep. William Jefferson, D- La., who in 2006 was discovered with $90,000 in his freezer. Perhaps he simply doesn’t believe in banks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was more suspicious and removed Jefferson from the Ways and Means Committee. She then placed him on the Homeland Security Committee.