Talk:Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate

Arrest the President
This article needs expanded... especially to include mention of the fact that the Senate SAA can arrest the President following an impeachment trial or for contempt of Congress. The House SAA does not have this power. --Daysleeper47 18:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow! If you've got a source for that, then you can put it in, yourself.—Markles 19:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The Source on that power is here: http://www.senate.gov/reference/office/sergeant_at_arms.htm

That link is a good start, but there is a lot more to it. The SAA is in a unique position. I've been told by SAA staff that he is the only law enforcement officer that is licensed to carry a weapon or make an arrest in all 50 states, I forgot which. Due to some weird convention where a Senator's office is considered state property or something. The guy I was talking to might have meant their office back home, but I was pretty sure he was talking about the ones in DC. I wish I could find more information on the whole SAA, it is much more than just the SAA himself. The whole organization is very interesting in how it provides services to US Senators. It's similar to the relationship between a high school principal and students. The principal's (and his staff's) job is to provide a service to the students, but also enforce protocol. He has to meet their needs, but in a fair, balanced manner. SJ, 1/18/2008

There has been a lot of back in forth in the edit history of this page regarding this claim. All references to arresting the president were removed from the cited source between July and September 2015. As the rest of the basic history provided by the source remains intact and this claim was specifically removed, I don't think it's reasonable to accept the previous version as the sole source. I have marked the citation as obsolete as a new source is needed to support this claim. Correlated alembic (talk) 18:11, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Citation needed for info on new Sergeant-at-Arms
The information recently added to this article regarding the reported appointment of Michael C. "Mike" Stenger as the new Sergeant at Arms needs a source cited, which would also be helpful in updating the article I previously created on the outgoing Sergeant at Arms Frank J. Larkin. Any assistance from my fellow Wikipedians in locating a source for that information, and updating the articles accordingly would be most appreciated.--TommyBoy (talk) 19:57, 9 July 2018 (UTC)