GOP senator offers to 'personally escort' McCormick to Senate orientation after Schumer hold --Sen Mike Lee offers to escort Dave McCormick into Capitol to attend new-senator orientation | 11 Nov 2024 | Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has offered to "personally escort" Republican Pennsylvania Senator-elect Dave McCormick into the Capitol to attend the new-senator orientation after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., moved to block him. "I'm willing to personally escort @DaveMcCormickPA into the Capitol for new-senator orientation. I'd like to see how they'd keep him out if he literally walked into 'the room where it happens'," Lee wrote from his personal X account Sunday. Lee said Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, "has indicated he'll join the effort." ..."I'll be right there alongside you, Mike," Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, responded. "Dave McCormick is the Senator-elect for Pennsylvania. And deserves to be at orientation alongside every other member of his freshman class."