October 5, 2000

Heard on the Hill

[Headline] Under Siege. Rep. Tom Davis (Va.) and his fellow House GOP leaders don't just have Democrats storming the gates anymore.

By Ed Henry

On Tuesday evening, hundreds of protesters with disabilities trapped a rather peeved Davis and scores of his National Republican Congressional Committee staffers in their First Street, SE, headquarters for more than seven hours.

Sources tell HOH that House Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Livingood's folks finally had to be called in to help Davis and several others sneak out a back window.

The protesters, who are fighting for the constitutionality of the Americans With Disabilities Act, chanted over and over, "You can't get out!"

Although the protest threw off some GOP staffers' plans to watch the first presidential debate away from the office, others took it in stride.

"I feel like Bernie Shaw," NRCC spokesman Jim Wilkinson cracked to HOH via telephone during the siege. "I'm about to crawl under the bed."

Then on Wednesday, GOP vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney was visiting the NRCC when his Secret Service detail freaked out after word spread that the protesters were returning for another round.

Cheney escaped before there was trouble. But at press time last night, the protesters were indeed headed back for more.

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