Pelosi rejects calls to shutter Capitol: 'We're the captains of this ship'
By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis - 03/10/20 01:26 PM EDT
With the Capitol consumed by anxiety over the coronavirus, Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) rose in a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday and told his Democratic colleagues they should leave Washington and return home to their districts, where they would be safer.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) immediately quashed the idea, according to multiple sources in the room.
“We are the captains of the ship. We are the last to leave,†she told her caucus, borrowing a line uttered moments earlier by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a Navy veteran.
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