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Secret Service Protection Secured: House Votes After Trump Attacks 

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. Credit | AP

United States: The House of Representatives has voted to expand USSS protections for the main aspirants of the presidency and vice-presidency after two attempted hits on the former president of the United States of America. This one was approved by a resounding unanimous voice vote; 405 to 0, which is unusual in the current congress with its party polarization. 

As reported by Fox News, the legislation was brought by Reps Ritchie Torres D-N Introduction The United States has laws and agencies that provide employment opportunities to the citizens of the United States irrespective of their national origin and this legislation was put forward by Reps Ritchie Torres D-N. Y. Larry, and Mike Lawler R-N. Y. Bullets), in response to the 13 July shooting at Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

A twenty-year-old gunman was able to shoot the rally outside the perimeters of the rally from a rooftop – which targeted Trump and killed one attendee, shooting himself and two others. Several weeks later, USSS agents arrested a man near a Trump golf course in West Palm Beach who was waiting for the former president during a Sunday round with an SKS rifle. 

Should the Congress approve the bill and if signed into law by President Biden as envisaged, the bill provides for a thorough assessment of the USSS protective standards together with the provision of standardized security measures for presidents, vice presidents and major candidates to the White House. 

“Whether the citizen feels like this or that, whether the citizen of America intends to vote in the upcoming election or not it is the right of the American people to decide on who will be elected into power, The idea which may sound romantic that our election could be decided by an assassin bullet should embarrass the conscience of this country, that is why it requires the federal government to act fast, “Lawler said during debate on the bill Thursday. No one can be happier that it only took a second attempt on the life of Donald Trump to finally receive the same kind of protection afforded to the President of the United States by the Secret Service.” 

Democratic Progressive Rep. Jerry Nadler of N. Y., said he is supporting the bill, but then added that the legislation to ban large clips will be hollow without accompanying stricter gun control measures. 

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