Protestors considering disrupting Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Tuesday Senate testimony might find themselves behind bars of they do so, Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) told Breitbart News exclusively.
Rubio is testifying before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the State Department’s FY26 budget request to Congress, and a large turnout and protester presence will accompany him. But Chairman Risch, who notoriously is not a fan of committee disruption, will not tolerate any disturbances in his hearings.
Under D.C. code, the chairman of the committee is authorized to remove protestors from the hearing room, but Risch will go one step further. If protestors return after being kicked out — to the same hearing or the following hearing — they’ll be arrested on the spot by Capitol police, which
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