由于国会警察和国民警卫队在3月4日的潜在威胁下处于高度戒备状态，众议院议长南希·佩洛西淡化了众议院改变日程以便周四不开会的说法。

佩洛西告诉记者:“我认为任何人都不应该受到任何鼓励，因为一些捣乱分子可能会出现，我们改变了整个计划。”。“不，我们只是把它移动了几个小时，”她说，以适应共和党人周四下午前往一个问题务虚会。

“我们将在中午之前离开，因为我们向共和党人承诺过，”她说。

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作为警察和国民警卫队，美国国会大厦警察防爆小组的一名成员走向国会大厦入口

周三，众议院举行了一次深夜会议，以确保议员和工作人员不必在3月4日出现在国会大厦。

与此同时，佩洛西承认，与周四开会的参议院相比，众议院成员存在安全问题，他指出，众议院“人数至少增加了四倍，因此，如果事实上周围有任何麻烦制造者，这意味着国会大厦的人数，这是有道理的。”

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2021年3月4日，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在华盛顿举行的每周新闻发布会上发言。

国会警察官员周三早些时候表示，他们“获得的情报显示可能的情节3月4日星期四，一个被认定的民兵组织闯入国会大厦”——极右阴谋论者认为前总统唐纳德·特朗普将在这一天重新掌权。

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一名国会警察在美国国会大厦巡逻，此前警方警告说，一个民兵组织

截至周四中午，安全措施仍然明显严密，但没有迹象表明会发生任何攻击。

执法人员表示，情报显示，民兵阴谋希望吸引来自全国各地的5万名成员压倒并占领国会大厦，但有迹象表明大量人员前往华盛顿。当局一直在监测前往华盛顿特区的旅行和酒店预订，他们表示，他们没有看到有意义的增长——这种情况更明显，因为大流行期间的旅行相对较少，酒店房间的可用性仍然很高。

国会警察因在1月6日袭击前一天没有分享联邦调查局关于潜在暴力的情报而受到批评，从那以后，智能手机被分发给所有官员，并与他们分享情报。

作为对持续威胁的回应，美国广播公司新闻证实，国会警察官员已经请求延期60天国会大厦的国民警卫队。

目前，国会大厦和该市仍有5000多名武装国民警卫队士兵，低于1月20日就职典礼上25000名安保人员的峰值。

剩余的5000名士兵计划于3月12日结束。

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随着时间的推移，密歇根州国民警卫队和美国国会警察保持警惕

当被问及国民警卫队的存在时，佩洛西说下周可能会公布一项安全审查。

“我们应该让他们在这里，只要他们需要，这是就职日的愚蠢...属于“让我们不要在这上面浪费时间”的范畴。“我们必须拥有我们需要的东西，在我们需要的时候，在我们需要的数量上。但那是安全决定。”

她补充说，“面对总统所有手下的威胁，我们必须确保我们的安全，确保我们有足够的安全来完成我们的工作。”

“需要更多的钱来保护国会大厦，让人们来这里，让孩子们来看看我们的民主在发挥作用，让你们所有人都安全地报道这里发生的事情，让成员们对他们在这里的安全感到放心，不要担心上次发生的事情，但这在民主中没有一席之地。”

美国国会代理警察局长约加南达·皮特曼(Yogananda Pittman)今年2月也对国会表示，目前存在干扰乔·拜登(Joe Biden)总统预计在国会联席会议上的讲话的威胁，可能是在本月晚些时候。

皮特曼作证说:“我们知道，1月6日在场的民兵组织成员表示，他们希望炸毁国会大厦，并杀死尽可能多与国情咨文有直接关系的成员，我们知道日期尚未确定。”“因此，根据这些信息，我们认为国会警察保持其增强和强大的安全态势是谨慎的，直到我们解决这些漏洞。”

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在警察警告说一个民兵组织可能会试图袭击美国国会大厦后，人们透过铁丝网看到了这座大厦

根据美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)获得的一份执行摘要，由佩洛西委托、退役中将拉塞尔·奥诺雷(Russel Honore)领导的国会大厦安全审查将建议增加约1000名新的国会警察，并改善国会大厦周围的基础设施。

该报告草案已与国会领导人和相关委员会分享，建议用移动和可伸缩的围栏取代众议院和参议院办公楼周围的临时剃刀铁丝网围栏，这些围栏仍可在没有任何威胁的情况下“实现开放的校园”。

它还建议授权国会警察局长在紧急情况下请求联邦执法部门和华盛顿特区国民警卫队的援助，以避免瓶颈和大量延迟这困扰着对1月6日暴乱的反应。

报告中的其他建议包括，国会大厦警察应保持公民抗命部队在国会开会时值班，需要更多的K9部队来检测爆炸物，国会大厦警察安装的部队应重新建立，并有一个永久的快速反应部队随时待命，以在需要时补充国会大厦警察和当地执法部门。

Capitol on high alert but quiet amid March 4 threat

As Capitol Police and National Guard troops were on high alert amid a potential threat tied to March 4, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed that the House changed its schedule so it wouldn't be in session on Thursday.

"I don't think anybody should take any encouragement that because some troublemakers might show up that we changed our whole schedule," Pelosi told reporters. "No, we just moved it a few hours," she said, to accommodate Republicans headed to an issues retreat Thursday afternoon.

"We were going to be out by noon because we promised that to the Republicans," she said.

The House held a late-night session on Wednesday to ensure that members and staff would not have to be on the Capitol complex on March 4.

At the same time, Pelosi conceded there were security concerns for House members, compared to the Senate, which was in session Thursday, noting that the House is "at least four times more people, and therefore, all that that implies in terms of numbers of people in the Capitol if, in fact, there's any troublemakers around, and it made sense."

Capitol Police officials said earlier Wednesday they had "obtained intelligence that shows apossible plotto breach the Capitol by an identified militia group on Thursday, March 4" -- the date far-right conspiracy theorists believe former President Donald Trump would return to power.

As of mid-day Thursday, security remained visibly tight but there was no indication that any attack would happen.

The intelligence, law enforcement sources said, suggested the militia plot hoped to draw 50,000 members from around the country to overwhelm and take the Capitol but there was sign of large numbers of people headed to Washington. Authorities have been monitoring travel to D.C. and hotel reservations and they say they have seen no meaningful uptick –- such things are more noticeable as travel during the pandemic has been relatively light and hotel room availability remains high.

Capitol Police faced criticism for not sharing intelligence from the FBI about the potential for violence the day before the Jan. 6 attack and since then smart phones have been distributed to all officers and intelligence shared with them.

In response to the ongoing threats, ABC News has confirmed that Capitol Police officials haverequested a 60-day extensionfor the National Guard presence at the Capitol.

There are currently more than 5,000 armed National Guard troops still at the Capitol and in the city, down from the peak of 25,000 present for security at the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The scheduled end for the 5,000 remaining troops is March 12.

Asked about the National Guard presence, Pelosi said a security review could be made public next week.

"We should have them here as long as they are needed, and the silliness of this being Inauguration Day ... falls into the realm of let's not waste our time on it," she said. "We have to have what we need, and when we need it, and in the numbers we need it. But that's a security decision."

She added, with “the threat of all the president's men out there, we have to ensure with our security that we are safe enough to do our job."

"It's going to take more money to protect the Capitol in a way that enables people to come here, children to come and see our democracy in action, all of you to cover what happens here safely, members to be comfortable that they are safe when they are here, and not be concerned about what happened last time, but that -- that just doesn't have a place in a democracy.”

Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief U.S. Yogananda Pittman also told Congress in February that there are ongoing threats to disrupt President Joe Biden's expected speech to a joint session of Congress, perhaps later this month.

"We know that members of the militia groups that were present on Jan. 6 have stated their desires that they want to blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union, which we know that date has not been identified," Pittman testified. "So, based on that information we think that it's prudent that Capitol Police maintain its enhanced and robust security posture until we address those vulnerabilities going forward."

The Capitol security review commissioned by Pelosi and led by retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore will recommend adding roughly 1,000 new Capitol Police officers to the force and improving infrastructure around the Capitol Hill complex, according to an executive summary obtained by ABC News.

The draft report, which has been shared with congressional leaders and relevant committees, recommends replacing the temporary, razor wire-topped fencing around the House and Senate office buildings with both mobile and retractable fencing that could still "enable an open campus" absent any threats.

It also recommends empowering the Capitol Police chief to request assistance from federal law enforcement and the D.C. National Guard in an emergency, to avoid thebottleneck and extensive delaysthat plagued the response to the Jan. 6 riot.

Other recommendations in the report include that Capitol Police should maintain Civil Disobedience Units to be on duty whenever Congress is in session, that more K9 units are needed to detect explosives, that the Capitol Police mounted unit be reestablished and that a permanent quick reaction force be on standby to supplement Capitol Police and local law enforcement when needed.