House Majority Whip James Clyburn says tapes exist that will vindicate him from the metal detector violation fine he was hit with two weeks ago.
“The tapes will show what happened. I’m going let the tapes speak for themselves,” the South Carolina Democrat told the Washington Examiner Tuesday. “The whole issue is I’ll never, ever intentionally circumvent magnetometers, nor would I ever make the jobs of these people who work around here difficult.”
PELOSI: CLYBURN ‘CAN APPEAL’ METAL DETECTOR FINE
Clyburn appealed the $5,000 fine he received for his metal detector violation to the House Ethics Committee.
Clyburn, the third-highest House Democrat, was first in his caucus to be fined for violating metal detector protocols since Speaker Nancy Pelosi established the security measures following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Clyburn reportedly evaded the metal detectors after using the men’s room, located by the Speaker’s Lobby, a hallway room next to the chamber floor, during a vote last month.
Three other lawmakers, all Republicans, were previously fined for violating the metal detector rule, passed by the Democrats in the chamber in January at the insistence of Pelosi.
The resolution imposes fines of $5,000 for the first penalty and $10,000 for the second.
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Those GOP members, Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Hal Rogers of Kentucky, all appealed their fines to the House Ethics Committee. The committee rejected Gohmert’s and Clyde’s appeal.
Rogers has yet to hear back from the committee on his appeal of his violation. Clyde, however, has prepared a lawsuit fighting the $15,000 metal detector fines he has racked up.
