Lawmakers weigh security boost after baseball practice shooting

Published June 15, 2017 4:01am ET



Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday were left pondering whether and how to increase their own security in the wake of a gunman’s shocking attack against GOP lawmakers at a baseball practice, and it is already prompting some to start pushing for police protection at their homes and group events outside the Capitol.

“When you have a situation where you have 20, 30, 40 members of Congress in the same place, open to anybody just walking through, perhaps we should rethink that a little bit,” Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., said during a news conference at the end of a day that put all of Capitol Hill on edge.

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