Members of Congress say they received no warning that the West Front went into lockdown Wednesday afternoon, prompting concerns about how Capitol Police would handle a more menacing threat to the secure airspace surrounding the Dome.

Among those demanding accountability from Capitol Police over the gyrocopter incident are appropriators who write the Capitol Police budget.

“We should have been alerted. We absolutely should have been alerted so we can not only take precautions ourselves, but for our constituents,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who holds the gavel on the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee. More