Pelosi hires DC National Guard chief to lead House security
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hired Maj. Gen. William Walker, the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard, to become the House's first Black sergeant-at-arms who will be in charge of securing members of Congress and maintaining order at the Capitol.
Walker was leading the D.C. National Guard at the time of the riot and testified on March 3 before lawmakers about how Guard troops were waiting on buses to be deployed to the Capitol to assist the officers who were under siege, but they had to wait three hours to get approval from the Pentagon. Walker said the then-Capitol Police Police Steven Sund contacted him at 1:49 p.m. with "his voice cracking with emotion" that there was a dire emergency at the Capitol and they needed the immediate assistance of the National Guard. Walker testified it wasn't 4:32 p.m. that the Defense Department signed off on the request.More Related News