Mr. BEUTTLER: Well, the sergeant at arms is one of the elected offices of the House.
And a sergeant at arms but also the doorkeeper were there to keep order.
This morning, Bill Livingood, the sergeant at arms, came in and announced Speaker Pelosi, or Ms. Pelosi, coming in to be elected speaker.
First Congress had a sergeant at arms who was there to keep order, but also a doorkeeper to make sure that people wouldn't come in and out.
Terrance W. Gainer, the Senate sergeant at arms who oversees the Capitol Police, said in a statement that the letter to Mr. Wicker had a Memphis, Tenn.
And so Wilson Livingood, who is, by the way, the first professional law-enforcement officer to serve in the position of sergeant at arms, he is the one to be retained by the Democratic majority from the previous Republican majority.
At the U.S. Capitol, "there have been increased foot patrols, exterior building checks and the strategic placement of personnel, all cautionary while the intelligence community measures the possibility of anti-American response, " Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer said via e-mail.
And this time, and a very historic time because this time, while there is a change in majorities, for the first time in - I believe it's for the first time, the sergeant at arms is retained from the previous majority.
As you saw, maybe individuals watching on television, but you saw the election of the speaker, and then the swearing in of the members, and then you had the election of the officers: clerk, chief administrative officer, and sergeant at arms and chaplain.
The Democrats managed to persuade one of the independents to join their ranks, but then Republicans peeled off the other independent, Senator William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms.
All told, I suspect, if the majority can actually convince the Sergeant at Arms and his staff to go out, seize the absent legislators, and bring them to the Capitol, the action might eventually be overturned in some court, but I suspect the vote will have long been taken by then.
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The Senate's sergeant-at-arms says the number of threats reported to him rose markedly in 2010, as the furore over health-care reform reached its climax.
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Senate Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms Martina Bradford said the hacking had been noticed at the weekend, and that officials were now reviewing all the sites hosted on Senate.gov.
The letter sent to Wicker had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer wrote in an e-mail to senators and aides Tuesday.
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said that an individual who was responsible for the suspicious packages in the Hart and Russell Senate office buildings on Tuesday was detained and released on Wednesday.
Hugill was too young to know his grandfather, while his father - who served as a Sergeant-at-Arms in the Home Guard during WWII - was reluctant to speak about his wartime experiences.
The politician said reports that the Sergeant-at-Arms had "banned" him from purchasing alcohol within the Palace of Westminster "appears entirely designed for public consumption and fuels misreports of my own alcohol consumption on the evening in question".
Meanwhile, as the debate over personal security for US Congressmen - who typically have little or none - heated up in Washington DC, the US Senate sergeant-at-arms told US television he opposed lawmakers arming themselves against potential threats.
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Investigators soon identified the Army section that had been at the police station's small arms range, and a staff sergeant, a sniper section leader from the 64th Armor Regiment, was the primary suspect.
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